'Bitter Kola Doesn't Cure Ebola Disease' - Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu Refutes Claims By Maurice Iwu

Nigerian Minister for Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has refuted the claim of former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Maurice Iwu, thar bitter cola could cure Ebola virus. Chukwu in a recent interview said thatthere is no scientific evidence of Garcinia kola, popularly called bitter kola as a cure and preventive measure against Ebola virus infection, explaining that the academic works being used to justify the measure is still ongoing.
The Minister said the information in circulation on social media and other channels confirming bitter kola as a possible cure to deadly Ebola was not true, as there was no known vaccine for the virus as well as no known specific drug as effective against it for now.
Onyebuchi noted that if available information were not streamlined, the unsuspected citizens would be affected, adding that the speculation that fruit was another cure lacked scientific and medical proofs.
"As I speak to you now, there is no proof yet of any such fruit. I repeat, there is no proof yet of any fruit" the Health Minister specified.
Still, Professor Chukwu acknowledged that former Chairman of the nation's electoral body, Professor Maurice Iwu alongside an administration in United States of America (USA) in 1999 conducted a research which at the level of the laboratory was what we call "in-vitro research" which he disclosed signified it was still in "the test tube as it were and it is not in any living body which we call in-vivo".