It is also perhaps too much to hope that someone would explain why the Chinese team was able to get a chartered flight to Nigeria on April 8 despite closure of airports, and they can’t get a chartered flight back to China while the closure subsists.
experts in Nigeria was given only 30-day visa, the Chinese embassy in Nigeria disclosed that the team was actually given a three-month visa. Who is lying? Surely this can’t be one of those subterfuges in language and logic suggesting that the truth lies somewhere between the Nigerian assertion and Chinese refutation. Someone definitely must be lying.
Right from the beginning of the Chinese medical team saga, neither the Chinese nor Nigerian version of the visit has been consistent. The PTF, through the Health minister, Osagie Ehanire, and others had always argued that they were not privy to the visit of the medical experts organised by the China Civil Engineering Construction Cooperation in Nigeria mainly to attend to the medical needs of the staff of that company.
What a relief then that, last Tuesday, Mr Aregbesola finally disclosed some of the key assignments of the Chinese team, a disclosure that conflicts with the original position of the Nigerian government. Said Mr Aragbesola: “Indeed 15 Chinese nationals came into Nigeria on April 8. From everything we have heard and said, they were here on the bill of CCECC, a Chinese company working in Nigeria, doing some work for us in several places.
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