News:
February 14, 2020
The Minority has called on the Government to immediately evacuate Ghanaian students currently locked up in China to a less Coronavirus infected area in Asia or be lifted back to Ghana.
According to the Minority, if government does not hid their call they would reconvene and tell the World their next line of action.
Ranking member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa noted that Ghana has the capacity to evacuate Ghanaian students from China especially those trapped in Wuhan where the coronavirus originally started from.
Addressing the media, he noted that France, Switzerland, Philippines, Russia, Libya among other countries have all evacuated their nationals from China as a result of the outbreak of the virus, whiles the United States of America is even doing a second round evacuation of their nationals.
“We urge the Ghanaian Government to swiftly move in to save Ghanaian students before anything bad befalls them”.
Mr. Okudzeto further backed his point by pointing out that Libya during their war nine years ago, Ghana was able to evacuate her nationals who were more than a thousand back to the country.
As records released by the World Health Organisation indicates that one thousand and sixteen people have been confirmed dead with forty-three thousand infected with the coronavirus, “Government cannot be insensitive to the plight of Ghanaians, this is a humanitarian issue and the earlier Government Acts the better”.
Meanwhile in a related development, the Ranking member on the Committee of Health Kwabena Mintah Akandoh is calling for the screening of all Chinese nationals in the country.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com