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I think a travel ban is pretty mild by comparison.
DAYS 'WITHOUT FOOD & WATER’ LIBERIAN ‘EBOLA PRISONER’ IN KENYA
Written by Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpag eafricaonline.com
Published: 16 October 2014
“I’m pregnant, but was made to sleep on a hard bench, it’s not even a bed, for over 24 hours without food, water or anything, can you imagine, this is the room, that’s the toilet, this is me.” - Monique Tata Allison
In the past week, the stigmatization of Ebola hit new lows, not just for citizens of nations hardly-hit by the virus residing in western nations, but also for Africans within Africa, a sad reality Monique Tatu Allison discovered when she touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport last Sunday.
“Can you imagine a Liberian citizen being detained in Kenya for over 24 hours in this kind of room, sleeping on this hard bed, I don’t even want to call it a bed, this hard bench?, a pregnant woman, from Brussels into Kenya Airport, “ Monique laments on a self-made video she made while in a holding room at the Kenyan airport.
Monique, who had flown into Nairobi to visit an aunt, Sharon Cooper told FrontPageAfrica Wednesday that immigration authorities in Kenya refused to allow her in. “They put me this room, detained me all day.” It took the intervention of Liberia’s Foreign Minister Augustine Ngafuan for the matter to be resolved.
Immigration authorities had threatened to send Monique back to Brussels, but after Minister Ngafuan called his counterpart in Nairobi, Monique was allowed to leave the airport and to see her aunt she had arrived in Kenya to visit. “I’m relieved but a bit disappointed, “she said Wednesday. “So much for African solidarity”.
Monique says since she touched down in Nairobi Sunday night about 11:15am Kenya time, she was booked as soon as immigration officers recognized her Liberian passport and suspected that she may have been infected with the virus but failed to give her a temperature test.
Full article: FrontPageAfrica - Days Without Food Water Liberian Ebola Prisoner in Kenya
DAYS 'WITHOUT FOOD & WATER’ LIBERIAN ‘EBOLA PRISONER’ IN KENYA
Written by Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpag eafricaonline.com
Published: 16 October 2014
“I’m pregnant, but was made to sleep on a hard bench, it’s not even a bed, for over 24 hours without food, water or anything, can you imagine, this is the room, that’s the toilet, this is me.” - Monique Tata Allison
In the past week, the stigmatization of Ebola hit new lows, not just for citizens of nations hardly-hit by the virus residing in western nations, but also for Africans within Africa, a sad reality Monique Tatu Allison discovered when she touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport last Sunday.
“Can you imagine a Liberian citizen being detained in Kenya for over 24 hours in this kind of room, sleeping on this hard bed, I don’t even want to call it a bed, this hard bench?, a pregnant woman, from Brussels into Kenya Airport, “ Monique laments on a self-made video she made while in a holding room at the Kenyan airport.
Monique, who had flown into Nairobi to visit an aunt, Sharon Cooper told FrontPageAfrica Wednesday that immigration authorities in Kenya refused to allow her in. “They put me this room, detained me all day.” It took the intervention of Liberia’s Foreign Minister Augustine Ngafuan for the matter to be resolved.
Immigration authorities had threatened to send Monique back to Brussels, but after Minister Ngafuan called his counterpart in Nairobi, Monique was allowed to leave the airport and to see her aunt she had arrived in Kenya to visit. “I’m relieved but a bit disappointed, “she said Wednesday. “So much for African solidarity”.
Monique says since she touched down in Nairobi Sunday night about 11:15am Kenya time, she was booked as soon as immigration officers recognized her Liberian passport and suspected that she may have been infected with the virus but failed to give her a temperature test.
Full article: FrontPageAfrica - Days Without Food Water Liberian Ebola Prisoner in Kenya