Nigeria to sanction Kenya Airways over Ebola corpse

Minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole has called out Kenya Airways for transporting a corpse from the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo to the country without proper documentation.

Congo is currently battling an outbreak of Ebola‎, which Nigeria successfully contained in 2014 – after Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian imported it to the country.

Nigeria has been on the alert since the recent outbreak in DRC Congo.

In a statement issued on Friday, the minister called for an investigation into the circumstances leading to the conveyance of the corpse to the country.

He also called for sanctions if the airline is found to have violated laid down rules in the transportation of bodies.

The corpse was brought into the country on Monday, and checks by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital indicate it is negative for Ebola.