News:
February 9, 2021
Former Ranking member on the Committee of Health, Kwabena Minta Akandoh has urged the Nana Akufo-Addo lead Government to as a matter of urgency dissolve the COVID-19 technical team and form a more competent team.
According to him if Government had taken off their political lens they would have seen more competent people to be part of the team. There is nothing they are saying now that the cases are surging.
When we said the cases were going-up some of them said we were lying, “we can all see what is happening now the cases are going up”.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 on the issue of a possible lockdown, he noted that if the necessary measures are put in place he does not think the time is up to be calling for a lockdown.
“Government is not walking the talk, they gave directives for schools to be re-opened, when you get to the schools on the first day there was no Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and you are virtually spreading the virus, because it takes seconds to spread the virus. When you go to most of the constituencies there are no thermometer guns”.
He pointed out that those who come to Parliament of Ghana their temperatures are taken every day, “we were told our borders were closed, we were taking tests at the airport taking one hundred and fifty dollars whiles other countries were taking less than seven dollars; where from the new variant coming from the UK?”
Again, the question is how the new virus entered the country, with the amount they are charging if they really did the test at the airport, total lockdown would not be needed.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com