All You Need To Know About Late Port Harcourt Doctor Who Died Of Ebola

                                                                  Late Dr. Enemuo’s Clinic
    A close friend of late Port Harcourt Doctor, Dr. Sam
    Ikechukwu Enemuo, who secretly treated Olu Koye, the ECOWAS official in a hotel has said his
    friend didn’t know the Diplomat was infected with the virus and wouldn’t have
    risked his life and that of others because of a mere token.
    Vanguard had a one on one interview with Mr. Tochukwu Agha, his close friend in Lagos and he said something entirely different from what Nigerians have been made to
    believe. The interview starting from Vanguard’s intro below;
    Until a few weeks ago, Dr. Sam Ikechukwu Enemuo was a
    relatively unknown name. But today, the very mention of his name and everyone
    is quick to identify him as the doctor who knowingly treated an Ebola patient
    in a hotel in Port Harcourt, contracted the disease and died of the illness
    after infecting others he had close contact with. An elderly woman who shared
    hospital room with him also died of the disease.


    Enemou was treating Olu Koye, the ECOWAS official who
    contracted the disease from Patrick Sawyer, the American-Liberian who brought
    the disease to Nigeria. Nigeria has never been the same since Mr Sawyer who
    knew he had the disease wickedly brought it here. Nigerians have been
    expressing disappointment that Dr. Enemuou knew his patient had Ebola but
    decided to treat him secretly, endangering his life possibly because of money.
    However, Mr. Tochukwu Agha, a Lagos business man who knew
    Emenuo from their university days vehemently disagrees that his friend who
    spent more than a decade in the tertiary institution to be a medical doctor
    would knowingly court death the way he has been portrayed. Tochukwu was
    Enemou’s friend for 23 years and we caught up with him at the National Stadium
    in Lagos where he plays tennis. In this interview, Tochukwu reveals another
    side of Emenuo.
    How did you become friends with the late doctor?
    I met the late doctor at the University of Jos in 1992. He
    was already a student there. I think he got in 1989/1990. He was in his third
    year studying Laboratory Technology. I was doing my diploma at the time. We met
    through my older cousin; he and Iyke (Ikechukwu) were friends. After my cousin
    left school, we became close. He finished studying Labtech before he enrolled
    again to study medicine at UNIJOS.
    So when I finished my degree in 1999, he was still in school
    studying Medicine because he had this burning passion to be a medical doctor.
    He finally graduated from medical school in 2001. He was in the higher
    institution for over a decade; he had his OND from Anambara State Polytechnic,
    Oko, before coming to UNIJOS to do his BSC, and then MBBS. He did his
    houseman-ship in Bauchi before going to port Harcourt for his NYSC. After NYSC,
    he stayed on in Port Harcourt.
    What sort of a person was he?
    His friends called him Iyke-tall or Lala. He was a very
    strong willed guy, he was very nice. He had always been an enterprising person;
    very ambitious, always wanting to succeed, and always wanting to help others.
    Olu-Ibukun Koye escaped a quarantine centre in Lagos where
    he was sick with Ebola and came to Port-Harcourt for treatment. Dr. Enemuo
    allegedly knew that he had the illness but did not report it and he kept
    treating him secretly at the hotel in Port-harcourt. Why do you think he did
    such a thing?
    It’s unbelievable that Iyke could do such a thing; I have
    heard a lot of stories. That it was out of greed, but I seriously doubt it.
    From a close source, one of the doctors that worked with him told me that he
    never knew the patient. He had never met him before; he did not know him from
    Adam. It was a staff of the hotel that called him and said that someone at
    their hotel, a friend, had diarrhea; you know that diarrhea and Ebola have similar
    symptoms. Iyke usually makes house calls, so it was when the hotel staff called
    him to come and check on the patient, that was the first time Iyke met Koye.
    He had a relationship with the staff before then. He
    attended to the patient. I don’t believe it was about the money; I don’t think
    he knew before hand that the illness was Ebola. He wouldn’t have risked his
    life for money; they couldn’t have paid more than N20, 000. This was a big boy
    that had his own hospital with three doctors working under him. It is a not a
    small hospital, very well known in Port-Harcourt. I did not get the chance to
    speak to him about it, but the Iyke I knew would not stoop so low and
    intentionally endanger his life and the lives of others.
    “I think he treated the patient out of the goodness of his
    heart; just to save the patient. He was a very adventurous guy. Perhaps he was
    genuinely interested in finding out what the problem was and how he could help.
    I don’t think he knew about the nature of the illness until later. The reason
    why he did not send the patient to the quarantine centre when he found out, I
    cannot say. It is just too bad that he is not here to tell us what really
    happened. Iyke is not the kind of person that would hide such a thing.
    People have been calling for Koye to be penalized for
    escaping quarantine in Lagos and endangering the lives of others? What do you
    think about this?
    Koye is the one who messed up. He was supposed to be
    quarantined in Lagos but he sneaked out to Port Harcourt. He knew he had the
    illness, but he knowingly travelled with it and infected others. I think he
    should be sanctioned. It is very bad. Iyke never knew that guy. It was when he
    got to Port-Harcourt that he got in contact with Iyke through the hotel staff.
    Doctors were on strike at that time, so the hotel staffr just kept making calls
    to find a doctor that could help. Because iyke had his own clinic, they got in
    touch with him and he agreed to see the patient.
    How did you hear about his passing?
    I was not in touch with him during the illness. I did not
    even know. It was my friends who told me. After his passing, we started making
    calls to one another. On the news, I heard about a doctor who died in
    Port-Harcourt, it did not even occur to me that it was my friend. It was when a
    friend of mine called me and asked me whether I heard about the doctor that
    died. He said: ‘Na Lala o,’ because that was what we called Iyke. Initially, I
    thought it was not Ebola,  that the media
    was trying to manipulate the whole thing. 
    But later I heard from reliable sources that it was actually Ebola that
    killed him.
    Are you in touch with his family? Do you know the state of
    their health?
    I was closer to his first wife; his long time school
    girlfriend, Stella whom he married. They had a pair of twins before they
    divorced a few years ago. He got married to this his new wife recently; last
    year I think. I don’t really know her well, but I know that they just had a
    baby about six weeks ago. I know of three children that he had.
    When he became ill, why did he not tell the doctor that he
    had the illness?
    I still cannot understand why. It’s difficult to say. Who is
    sure he knew? When we were in school, he would go out of his way to help
    others, he would counsel students on the best course of action to take when
    they were going through challenges; he would show new students the ropes, and
    help aspiring students get admission.
    I wish he was alive. I’m sure he would have learned from his
    mistakes and handled the case differently.

    It is really terrible. He just bought a piece of property
    worth a lot of money. His wife just had a new baby. Why did this have to happen
    at this time? All I can say is that maybe that is how God wants it. Because I
    cannot understand why Iyke would die and the person who he contracted the
    sickness from is alive and well.

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