Someone
cannot just sit still or wait outside forever without joining the growing
discourse of Ebola; the name of a river that has become popular (rather
dreadful) than the country of her origin. The river has achieved feat that some
river will never achieved because her name has make history. The river where EBOLA is reborn.
Everywhere,
I turn in this lovely country of Good people, Great nation. I can’t but smile
when I see how my countrymen react to the name of the river Ebola. To me the
letters of the river name simply mean: excellent, beautiful, outstanding, loving
and awesome; yet no one will for everything in the world go to the river. The
river seems so far from my country but a man named Patrick Sawyer brought the
fruits to my country and now my country is totally apprehensive. The river is everything
never wanted by my countrymen. From an economist viewpoint, I love to describe
the fruit of the river as some of the prophesied corrective check of nation to
overpopulation as predicted by the late Reverend Thomas Malthus. The launch of
deforestation and ocean reclamation has limited the biodiversity which has led
to cohabitation of man and other living organisms with the ever increasing
results.
What
if we had curb over population?
What
if the national population commission is preaching population control through
the Malthusians and neo-Malthusian principles of abstinence, late marriages, family
planning etc?
What
if?
Perhaps
we would not be singing the name of faraway Congo River in my country.
...
but all is not lost.
many
of her victims are not aware. The river flows with allurement and sweetness
which in itself is not bad but the killer disease makes the river dreadful
I
want to emphasise the need to look beyond the virus and consider another virus
in another river. Just like the human immunodeficiency virus, this virus has a
window period and this period could last over a life time, which makes people
to neglect the possibility of ever having this virus. The river is called EDEN,
which means: elusive, dynamite, elevation and nature.
The
union between the two rivers is that the only cure is found in the fruit of a
mountaintop plant. On the mountaintop is a plant whose fruits heal the effect
of the virus gotten from these two rivers. The irony is that the symptoms of
this disease are not annoying or agonizing but it is strength and vigour
depleting and by the time the disease is full blown, death is inevitable. It
takes a whole miracle to be healed from this disease but the beauty is that in this
present day the fruits of this mountain tree plant can be accessed anywhere by
a single prayer and you will be instantaneously cure are free.