Bitter Kola and Ebola: What Nigerians must know - Health Minister

Talking about Dr. Maurice Iwu’s thesis
regarding bitter kola and Ebola (Iwu said
Kolanut could cure Ebola - based on research),
Nigerian Health Minister Prof. Onyebuchi
Chukwu said the government is considering
making laws to arrest people who make bogus
claims to have a cure for Ebola, and said
Nigeria needs to work with Dr. Iwu. The
Minister said told Vanguard ;
"One of the things we decided to focus on
by setting up that committee is to
streamline claims of possible scientific
cure, not a situation where pastors and
imams claim they can cure Ebola. We
might even go to the extent of making
laws to arrest people with such bogus
claims. We would take every suggestion
seriously. About Professor Iwu, we know
that quite a number of Nigerians accessed
his article through the internet. Continue
What Professor Iwu and his research team
proved in America is that in the laboratory
test-tube – not in an animal or a human being
– bitter kola extract was able to hinder the
growth of Ebola virus, that it was able to slow
it down or kill it. That research was not
concluded according to Professor Iwu himself
and he says he is disappointed that the
research was not taken to its logical conclusion.
We need now to work with him and that is why
we need him. He is a distinguished world
renowned professor of pharmacognosy; and he
is someone we value in this country because of
his professionalism and working with others;
we would be able to put all ideas to the test
and see how far we go. This is a serious
business.