There was pandemonium at the ever busy Marina area of Lagos Island in Lagos State after a combined team of policemen and men believed to be Lagos State Ministry of Health cordoned off a popular hotel owned by an Industrialist from Kwara State.
The actions of the police and health officials followed reports of the likelihood that a guest with Ebola Virus Disease might have died at the hotel, yesterday.
The cordoning off began at about 7 pm when a team of policemen who were more than 15 converged at a junction in Marina, Lagos, leading to Beni Hotels, a popular resort in the area.
Armed with assault weapons, the residents in the area at first thought that the policemen might have come on a tip-off to arrest some criminal suspects. Onlookers, however, became spooked after it was noticed that the police officers all had white gloves on their hands.
Even so, another white coaster bus followed the squad cars that brought the policemen. Not a few observers believed that the bus bore civilian health workers as none of them wore police uniform.
Saturday Mirror exclusively gathered from one of the police officers at the place that the team was there on official business after it was reported that there were foreigners from countries ravaged by the disease.
“There are so many foreigners in the hotel and we have been asked to test them all if there is any infected patient at the hotel,” explained the police officer.
There were, however, other reports stating that a guest at the hotel might have died of infection believed to be ebola. Our reporter later observed that some lodgers, believed to be foreigners, were taken way by the police.
Efforts by Saturday Mirror to confirm the development from the manager of the hotel, who was simply identified as Alabla, proved abortive. “I cannot tell you anything specifically on this matter,” he told our reporter.
Source: National Mirror
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