Ebola: States defy FG on corpse movement

There are denotements that most states of the federation are not complying with the Federal Government’s veto on the inter-state kineticism of corpses thus imperilling the spread of the pernicious Ebola virus.

Investigation by Saturday PUNCH revealed that most states had yet to put measures in place to control indiscriminate kineticism of corpses.

The Federal Regime, through the National Council on Health, had proscribed inter-state kineticism of corpses as a component of the quantifications aimed at averting the spread of the pernicious Ebola virus imported to Nigeria by a Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.

Despite the ostracization, families of deceased persons and undertakers have withal perpetuated to defy the order.

Saturday PUNCH found that corpses were being peregrinate from Lagos State to other destinations without getting the compulsory regime waivers.