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Liberian Patrick Sawyer imported Ebola to Nigeria .... Photo Credit: FrontPage
Africa


VIDEO SHOWS LIBERIAN, PATRICK SAWYER, WAS “TERRIBLY ILL”, POSSIBLY KNEW HE HAD
EBOLA BEFORE TRAVELING TO NIGERIA

byNicholas Ibekwe
August 7, 2014
Reading Time: 2 mins read
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Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian man who brought the Ebola virus into Nigerian,
looked “terribly ill” and might have known he was infected with the virus before
traveling to Nigeria, the Liberian media is reporting.

According to a review of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) images at the James
Spriggs Payne’s Airport, Monrovia, by Liberian newspaper, The New Dawn, Mr.
Sawyer, also a naturalised American, looked terribly ill and deliberately
avoided contacts with people just before boarding the Asky Airline flight that
brought him to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

Describing his behaviour as “strange”, the The New Dawn said Mr. Sawyer bore a
“sad countenance” like he was troubled and sat alone avoiding bodily contact
with other passengers who came close to him at the boarding gate of the James
Sprigg Payne’s Airport as he awaits his flight to Lagos.

According to Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, Mr Sawyer who was
a consultant for the Liberian Ministry of Finance, arrived Lagos on July 23 to
attend an ECOWAS convention in Calabar. He became terribly ill on the airplane
just before it touched down in Lagos.

Photo Credit: Courtesy ‏@doogysolja via Twitter


Some ECOWAS officials and airport staff helped him out of the airplane and
rushed him to First Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende, where he died two days
later.

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“His strange behaviour and frequent movement up and down as he eagerly awaits
his Asky flight had prompted the security camera operator to focus on him. In
the video, Patrick could be seen avoiding physical contacts with airport
employees and other passengers during the check in process,” the newspaper
wrote.

Airport video footage, according to the report, also showed Mr. Sawyer lying
flat on his stomach on the floor in the corridor of the airport and seemed to be
in “excruciating pain.”

The footage showed Mr. Sawyer preventing people from touching him.



According to the The New Dawn reporter who reviewed the video, he even snubbed
an Immigration officer who initiated a friendly gesture of a handshake moments
before he boarded the airplane.

FrontPage Africa, another Liberian newspaper, is also reporting that Mr. Sawyer,
who is believed to have been infected by his sister who died of Ebola told its
reporter soon before he travelled to Nigeria that he had gone in search of his
sister’s husband who ran away after she tested positive for Ebola.



The paper said Mr. Sawyer vomited a few times among his friends in Liberian just
before heading to the airport and also on the plane.

FrontPage Africa’s publisher, Rodney Sieh, later told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone
from the Liberian capital, Monrovia, that his paper’s extensive reporting on the
matter showed clearly Mr. Sawyer knew he had contacted the Ebola virus before
travelling to Nigeria.



“He definitely knew he was sick and it was curious that he still decided to
travel,” Mr. Sieh said. “His sister had died from the virus and he most likely
had contact with her.”

Rage and disruptive behaviour   

According to FrontPage Africa, after Mr. Sawyer became ill on the airplane; he
denied to First Consultant’s personnel that he had contact with anyone infected
with Ebola despite repeated inquiries after initial tests for Malaria and HIV
were negative.





The newspaper said Mr. Sawyer however went into a rage and behaved in a
disruptive manner at First Consultant Medical Centre after he was told he tested
positive to Ebola.

 

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