Sports minister, Solomon Dalung has made it clear that Nigeria will go ahead to play its friendly match with the Democratic Republic of Congo in spite of the reported outbreak of Ebola in that country.
The minister, who answered reporters’ questions shortly after a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari today, Monday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, insisted: “Nigeria is going to play the friendly with DRC.
“I have discussed with the Federal Ministry of Health, with the World Health Organization in participation and we have reviewed the situation and received adequate information about it. So we have agreed on major approaches.
“One, the DRC team is coming through a chartered flight, including all those coming for the match. They will be using that chartered flight and they would have been screened from the DRC and they will be screened here in Nigeria.
“There is going to be no any other person that is going to be admitted using any other means of transportation for the match. We also discovered that the Ebola outbreak is limited to a particular place and it has not escalated. So we wouldn’t want to run the risk of setting a precedent which we will later be a victim of.
“Based on that, we only introduced strict policies to ensure that the match takes place and the match will take place.”
