Saturday 9 August 2014

Nigerian Lady Who Started The Salt & Water Ebola Cure Rumour, Apologizes




“My name is Adesewa, I am coming out clean because what started has a joke has escalated into the unprecedented.

Yesterday (Thur, 07/08/2014) I was with friend in her hostel, we were talking about this Ebola outbreak, when one of my friends, Funke brought the idea of us playing a prank on our friends.

The first suggestion was to tell people that aloe vera could cure Ebola, but we thought it would sound too ridiculous so we forgot about it.

Later that evening an idea came to me (I now regret that I did it).

I decided to send a BBM broadcast message to my friends, telling them that the Ministry of Health has asked everyone to bathe with salt and warm water and drink some of it.

I sent the message 7:08pm yesterday (Thur, 07/08/2014).

Later at midnight I started getting calls and messages that I should drink salt water and bath with it. All efforts to tell people that I was the one who started the joke failed. Only my friends who I mentioned earlier believed me. Even my mum called me this morning. I did not know what to tell her.

I am using this medium to beg you all to warn and tell everyone, before they drink salt and damage their health.
Please don’t be harsh on me. I know this has gone out of hand. I never knew it will be this serious. Some have even added to the original message I sent.”

So, this is her apology! What do you think? Indeed a joke has led to families become bereaved!  



source:.nairaland.com/drealgeesam1

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