Not time to put asunder Nigeria/China ties
Television screens and social media platforms were abuzz last month with pictures of Nigerians on Chinese streets protesting their eviction from their hotels and places of abode by the Chinese security forces on account that they were coronavirus-prone, or that they were already infected by the COVID-19 virus.
Nigerians penchant for travel is well known and their enterprising prowess is legendary. It was therefore not an accident, neither was it a coincidence that Nigerians were in China at a time that coronavirus went viral in the Chinese enclave. Good enough, the federal government and the Chinese authority have already taken steps to douse the tension by providing clues and explanations as to what actually transpired, attributing the whole brouhaha to poor communication. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama put the records straight at a press conference attended by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Zhou Pingjian.
“A Nigerian restaurant frequented by Africans and Nigerians; the Chinese authorities obviously picked up on this that there was this group of people who had tested positive. “And they confirmed that that narrative was true. That there were, in other words, this case that had been confirmed as positive that came in from an African flight and that there was this lady who owned a restaurant who was positive and the great fear that all the clients visiting that restaurant and maybe other restaurants might have been infected and might now be passing on that infection. So, after their experience in Wuhan, they were very determined to contain this in this way.
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