President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has responded to comments by critics regarding how his government is handling the pandemic outbreak of Coronavirus in the country.
Ex-President John Dramani Mahama and members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have held strong views that the President is taking poor decisions in addressing the pandemic and also questioned his exit plan from the current situation confronting Ghanaians.
Mr. Mahama believes the President has no clue how to stabilize the economy and even more compounding the plight of Ghanaians during this pandemic.
"From 3,091 to 4,012 #COVID19 cases within 24 hours; Government is certainly failing the people of Ghana. Fear gripped many homes last night when the latest confirmed cases were released. And that is understandable. #COVID19 is real, my brothers and sisters. I want to encourage you, yet again, to protect yourself. Regular hand washing with soap and under running water is a must. Stay Home, but if you have to go out for any reason including work, wear your mask, take along a hand sanitizer, and always disinfect commonly used and touched surfaces. And, let us continue to remember the poor & needy. They need our support," he posted on his Facebook wall.
Also during his regular digital conversations on the pandemic, Mr. Mahama held that the President's promise to construct 94 hospitals in one year won't come into fruition, adding that President Akufo-Addo has abandoned health facilities that he (Mahama) constructed before leaving office.
But in a sharp riposte to his political opponents, President Akufo-Addo says his decisions and policies have rather proven fruitful as many Ghanaians have been spared from contracting the deadly disease.
"The implementation of our strategy of aggressively tracing, testing and treating is our surest way of rooting out the virus. This early identification of persons with the virus ensures that they do not spread the virus to others; we are provided with the opportunity to treat them; and it helps us to understand better the dynamics of the virus.
"The rapid implementation of all of our policies has resulted in our low infection, hospitalisation and death rates, some of the lowest in Africa and the world," he asserted.
President Akufo-Addo further called on Ghanaians to ignore his critics because they have nothing better to offer them other than to seek their own "political survival".
"I know some political actors will want you to believe that our current numbers represent a failure on the part of Government. Do not begrudge them. They need to make such comments for their political survival," he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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THE POLITICIZATION OF COVID-19 IS NOT HELPFUL TO ANYONE. IT ONLY CONFUSES THE POOR ORDINARY GHANAIANS TO DISTURB THEIR PEACE TO MAKE THEIR SITUATION WORSE. NOBODY IS 100 PERCENT CERTAIN ABOUT HOW TO MANAGE COVID-19. MANY PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BE INFECTED AND DIE IN AMERICA EUROPE, NIGERIA, MOROCCO AND ALL OVER THE WORLD. GHANA IS NOT EXEMPTED. CLOSE STUDY OF THE PROGRESSION OF THE VIRUS SHOWS THAT WE ARE NOT YET AT THE PEAK OF THE PANDEMIC IN GHANA. ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO I HINTED THAT AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA WOULD BECOME THE NEXT TARGETS OF COVID-19. TODAY WE SEE THE RISE OF CONFIRMED CASES AND DEATH IN ALL AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA. THE DEATH RATE IS TERRIBLE IN BRAZIL. NIGERIA HAD VERY FEW CASES AT THE BEGINNING. THEY WERE NOT TESTING AS MUCH AS THEY SHOULD AND STILL THEY ARE NOT. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT LOW AMOUNT OF TESTING MAKES A COUNTRY LOOKS GOOD, NEVERTHELESS LOW AMOUNT OF TESTING DOES NOT STOP THE RATE OF DEATH IN THAT COUNTRY. THUS THE RATE OF DEATH EXPOSES THE EXACT SITUATION ON THE GROUND. GHANA INFECTED CASES MAY HIT ABOUT 5000 BY THE MIDDLE OF MAY. IF THAT HAPPENS THE FIGURE COULD REACH 10,000 BY THE END OF MAY BEFORE THE RATE OF INFECTION FLATTENS AND BEGINS TO GO DOWN. WE HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE WORST. WE ARE NOT BETTER THAN EUROPE, AMERICA SOUTH AFRICA, EGYPT BRAZIL AND THE OTHER PLACES. THIS IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM. IT IS NOT GHANA PROBLEM AND THE OPPOSITION SHOULD STOP LOCALIZING IT TO TREAT IT AS GHANA PROBLEM. IT ONLY SHOWS OF THEIR IGNORANCE ABOUT GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. GHANA MAY ACHIEVE GREAT SUCCESS IN THIS FIGHT BUT WE CANNOT WIN ALONE. WE MAY ERADICATE COVID-19 IN GHANA BUT IF WE STILL HAVE IT IN NIGERIA, TOGO, BURKINA, IVORY COAST OR AMERICA AND EUROPE WE SHALL STILL NOT BE FREE. TO THE PEOPLE OF GHANA, ALL PROTOCOLS SET IN PLACE MUST BE OBSERVED SERIOUSLY. THE FRUITLESS CRITICISM CANNOT MAKE THE SITUATION BETTER. AS ONE EXPERTS SAID WE DO NOT YET HAVE ANY PROVEN MEDICATION OR FORMULA AS CURE TO THE PANDEMIC. THE ONLY WAY TO MANAGE IT IS TO APPLY COMMON SENSE. THE NOISYY POLITICIANS SHOULD SPARE US THE UNNECESSARYY COMMENTARY. ANYBODY CAN SIT AT THE FENCE AND SHOUT, BUT IT TAKES A DISCIPLINE TEAM TO WIN THE MATCH.