Yes! I said it. I knew it was all a prank by some jobless Nigerians but it might annoy you when suddenly realize the person who started the Ebola 'salt & hot water' rumour is just a University girl who lives with a room mate in school.
She just came public at Nairaland to beg Nigerians for forgiveness based on the rumour she started with her roommate which put the whole nation in turmoil.
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I Started The Salt & Water Ebola Cure Rumor I Truely Am Sorry – by Adesewa (Nairaland)My confession and apology
Dear Nigerians and everyone who have heard of the ebola Prevention “News”, My name is Adesewa, I am coming out clean because what started has a joke has escalated into the unprecedented.
How it started:
Yesterday i was with friend in her hostel, we were talking about this Ebola out break, when one of my friends, Funke (she introduced me to NL) brought the idea of Us playing a prank on our friends. The first suggestion was to tell people that aloe very could cure Ebola, but we thought it would sound too ridiculous so we forgot about it.
Later that even an idea came to me (i now regret that i did it).
I decided to send a BBM broadcast message to my friends, telling them that the Ministry of Health has asked everyone to bathe with salt and warm water and drink some of it.
I sent the message 7:08pm yesterday, later this midnight I started getting calls and messages that i should drink salt water and bath with it.
All efforts to tell people that i was the one who started the joke failed. Only my friends who i mentioned earlier believed me. Even my mum called me this morning, i did not know what to tell her.
I am using this medium to beg you all to warn and tell everyone not to try this, before they drink salt and damage their health.
Please don't be harsh on me. I know this has gone out of hand. I never knew it will be this serious. Some have even added to the original message i sent.According to her, She’s a student of Federal University of Technology, Akure. See her reply to a post directed to her on Nairaland below:
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