On Friday when President Akufo-Addo address the nation, never did he mention that he has given power to the military or police to use brute force on citizens, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has said.
According to the NPP Chairman known as Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, government isn't seeking to worsen the conditions of citizens by unleashing violence on them.
He therefore called on the various heads of the security to address the content of the videos going round that suggest that their personnel are ready to beat citizens who flout the directives of the President.
In an interview with Wontumionline.com, Mr. Antwi-Boasiako stated that "I am calling on the Ashanti Regional Minister and the Ashanti Regional Coordinating council to take a look at the video which is in circulation and creating fear. The Northern Sector Command of the military and Police must also provide information to calm lives. The President hasn't given anybody power to beat people.
He added that "The police can arrest people who flout laws. But people should first understand what the President said and shouldn't misinterpret it. The banks and other people offering essential services can all go to work."
Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako therefore asked citizens to obey the orders of President Akufo-Addo and avoid running into unnecessary confrontations with the security services.
In an address by President Akufo-Addo to open up on updates to Ghana's enhanced response to the coronavirus pandemic stated that "Government is doing is intended to achieve five (5) key objectives – limit and stop the importation of the virus; contain its spread; provide adequate care for the sick; limit the impact of the virus on social and economic life; and inspire the expansion of our domestic capability and deepen our self-reliance."
He revealed that "Thus far, we have succeeded in halting any more importations of the virus into our country, and I thank the overwhelming majority of you for adhering to the good hygiene and social distancing protocols announced in my first broadcast to you."
However, President Akufo-Addo noted that "prevailing circumstances mean that stricter measures have to be put in place to contain and halt the spread of the virus within our country, especially in Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Kumasi, which have been identified by the Ghana Health Service as the “hotspots” of the infections. In doing this, we cannot afford to copy blindly, and do all the things some other well-developed countries are doing."
"We can defeat this virus if we all commit ourselves to respecting all the measures that have been outlined. I am confident that Ghanaians will comply with them, and the security services will not have to intervene, with extraordinary means, to enforce them. The love of country is deeply embedded in all of us, and I assure you that the security forces will conduct themselves with the necessary professionalism", he said.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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THE ONLY LANGUAGE GHANAIANS UNDERSTAND IS MILITARY ACTION. PEOPLE MUST BE BEATEN TO COMPLY. WE HAVE ALL SEEN PICTURES OF LOCKDOWN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND THERE IS COMPLETE SOLEM. WHY ONLY GHANA THAT PEOPLE WOULDN'T COMPLY? ARE GHANAIANS POORER THAN THOSE OTHER COUNTRIES THAT THERE ARE LOCKDOWNS AND YET THERE IS OBIDIENCE? EVEN IN THE AN_-IMAL KINDOM THERE IS SENIORITY AND THERE IS LEADERSHIP. IF LEADERS ARE NOT RESPECTED HERE ON EARTH EVEN IN HEAVEN WE WOULD STILL NOT RESPECT GOD. WHY? I THINK WE ARE JUST TOO STUBBON. BUT I THINK THE REAL GHANAIAN IS NOT STUBBON BUT WE HAVE ALLOWED FOREIGNERS TO TAKE UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF OUR KINDNESS FOR THEIR OWN [PAROCHIAL INTEREST AND WE LOOK UNCONCERNED. THAT HAS TO STOP.
Keep fooling yourself, u think everything is about politics,stay home and save your own life too you don’t understand.
Ghana is now under military rule now. The police and military should stop brutalizing us, some of us cannot stay home and die. We have children to feed and have to go to work.
After this lockdown, nana addo and the npp will be seriously unpopular and are likely to lose the next election. This is because they rate at which the military and the police have started beating the citizens just one day into this lockdown is very serious. This not about people being stubborn, it is about the government not being prepared before this order. No relief package to support people who would lose their job, so fear of going hungry will make people try to step out to work.