Africa: Continent with several deadly viral diseases such as the SAS, HIV/AIDS and now

We live on a continent with several deadly viral diseases such as the SAS, HIV/AIDS and now the most deadly of all, Ebola.

My prayer is, may we as a country not record this deadly disease and may God help those countries affected to battle it out completely.

Since the recent outbreak of Ebola, there have been many revelations:

1. The first discovery of Ebola was in 1976 in Congo.

2. Ebola is a viral disease.
3. Ebola was seen around a river called Ebola and several other revelations.

However, other people especially traditionalists, native doctors, some Pastors and Mallams and even some elites in the academia also believe, with intuitive conviction that the Ebola disease was delibrately created by the Westerners to cause havoc in Africa.

Delibrately releasing a created or modified or altered disease such as viral, bacterial and others is termed as bioterrorism.

After some intensive readings done on some previous actions by the Westerners, I am tempted not to rule out bioterrorism in the case of Ebola.

The Westerners are capable of doing anything. Read the following:

1. In the 1960's, France intentionally exploded bombs on the Sahara Desert. God knows why they did that.

Fortunately, it was the Ghanaian Intelligence under Dr Kwame Nkrumah which first detected that bomb explosion by France.

Indeed Nkrumah fought that incident vigorously by leading Africans all the way to the UN General Assembly to address that. He also put on the table before the Assembly that the African Continent is not and should not be used for military experiment or whatsoever.

2. As we speak, there are evidence that the USA and some of its allies are deploying drones on African Continent. We all know the kind of havoc that drones have caused especially in Asia, in the Middle East and in the Persian Gulf.

3. Germany is on record to release anthrax disease on animals in the build-up to the First World War and caused a collateral and substantial damage.

4. Again, France is on record to be deeply involved in the destabilization of Mali and the Central African Republic and we all know it detrimental effects and consequencies.

5. The intrusion of Western hostile forces in Africa to pry and prey on our natural resources are on record.

6. The intrusion of economic predators and big capitalists who sit in giant and board rooms of multinational coperations in the colonial metropolis to the excessive maximization of their profits on the sweat of Africans.

7. Excessive and unnecessary interference in African matters by the Westerners(USA, France, Turkey and other bodies like the useless NATO) such as that of Libya and others.

All the above may give one the impression to suffice it to infer that the Westerners may have a hand in the current Ebola outbreak.

You see, a disease may be there in nature, but can cause a severe and massive infection when it is intentionally modified or altered with all intents and purposes.

They want us to believe that the first outbreak was in 1976, why couldn't they find a solution to it then???

What caused the recent massive and large spread or outbreak???

I leave these questions to your conjectures.
I am not a doctor, I have never pretended to be a doctor, indeed I do not know how to calculate and read virus.

However, I am also not a traditionalist, I am not a native doctor and indeed I do not know how to soothsay or how 'foresee' anything.

I am saying that inasmuch as they are telling us the results of their research, one can also not rule out bioterrorism based on facts.

This is a clarion call, Africans must stand up and delve into a critical research to find out the real causes of some of these strange and deadly diseases, but not sitting down for some class of people to conduct their distorted research for us to imbibe.

They(Westerners) gather to research so let the doctors that we have in Africa too gather and research.

Traditionalists and native doctors too should sit up and join the fight, they should stop only talking about it, they should also gather and save Africa from this quagmire of perceived bioterrorism.

Thank you and your views are welcomed.
By Osumanu Abubakar.