Covid 19 Fight: Govt. Killing Citizens for Votes – NDC
The largest opposition National Democratic Congress NDC has described a rhetoric the government fight against COVID 19.
It says the ruling New Patriotic Party NPP led Akufo-Addo government was only interested in vote than values human lives.
Speaking at the weekly press briefing, the National Communications officer, Mr. Sammy Gyemfi pointed out that due to the government’s parochial interest, foreign diplomats evacuated their citizens from Ghana.
He added that “indeed, our present COVID-19 situation, which clearly is getting worse by the day, calls for a deep and candid introspection and soul-searching by the nation”.
According comrade Sammy Gyemfi, Ghana is fast-losing the COVID-19 fight, due to the careless and directionless leadership of President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo.
“Indeed, international reputable organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), has been alarmed by our current situation, leading to their recent assessment of Ghana as one of the countries driving the spread of the virus in West Africa, whilst the European Union also recently placed Ghana among countries whose nationals have been given restricted access to the EU zone due to our terrifying COVID-19 situation”, he stated further.
Mr. Gyemfi expressed worried about how government is handling the situation since the country is completely overwhelmed by the pandemic.
He said whilst other countries have stepped up their fight against the pandemic, Ghana has taken its foot off the pedal, with the authorities almost but conceding defeat.
The opposition NDC laid blame on President Akufo Addo’s refusal to close the borders and airport, as well as adopt containment measures on time.
“It would be recalled that President Akufo-Addo ignored all calls for him to close our borders and airport from health professionals, the NDC and other citizens, and rather went frolicking in Europe at a time the coronavirus was ravaging several European and western nations”, he added.
According to the NDC NCO “some Pastors and other citizens were jailed for breaking COVID 19 protocol but refused to do same to his party people who breaks the law during the recently held Parliamentary primaries.
The question we would want to ask is that, if the new recovery and discharge policy under which asymptomatic persons are discharged without any confirmatory tests is good, then why was Carlos Ahenkora made to undertake two (2) confirmatory tests before he was declared as having recovered? What is government hiding from the nation? Don’t they believe in their own recovery and discharge policy? On what basis are they determining who deserves confirmatory tests and who doesn’t? Why does Carlos Ahenkora deserve two confirmatory tests, but the ordinary Ghanaian who has contracted the virus don’t deserve same? Is it because the Akufo Addo government values the lives of their officials over the lives of ordinary Ghanaians?
Friends from the media, this lack of consistency in the application of government’s new recovery and discharge policy, casts serious doubts about its validity and viability and shows that same cannot be relied upon by the nation if we are serious about the COVID-19 fight.
The NDC therefore demand the immediate closure of all reopened schools which were hurriedly reopened under the guise of facilitating the writing of WASSCE, just to make room for the Electoral Commission to register SHS students on their school campuses. The Ghanaian Times newspaper reports today, that ten (10) more Senior High Schools have recorded cases of COVID-19.
Source: Ghanaiandemocrat
