The Bureau of Public Safety (BPS), a research and advocacy institution on Saturday appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider a holistic 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.
In a statement signed by Etornam Korda, Director, Research and Advocacy of BPS, and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra said: “if the country failed to take immediate bold and radical steps, all the good efforts applied so far will come to nought and eventually the country will be consumed by this ravaging novel virus."
The BPS calls come after Ghana recorded 408 COVID-19 cases with eight deaths.
The statement further called on the government "to apply more efforts at education and effective monitoring of traced contacts and suspected cases to minimize frequent escapees from isolation centres and enhance medical advice."
According to the statement, the government should also expand testing sites across the 16 Regions within the shortest possible time.
It, therefore, called on Ghanaians to "join the call for the extension of restricted movement across the country and support government in these trying times."
The statement called on the citizenry to comply with the directives on the restriction of movements noting that, "our collective discipline remains key in the fight against COVID-19."
It further encouraged men and officers in the law enforcement front to demonstrate tact and professionalism at all times in their enforcement duties.
The statement commended President Akufo-Addo for the various social and business interventions put in place to alleviate the suffering of the masses and shocks of organizations.
Source: GNA
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PLS SOME PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ARE ASKING THEIR WORKERS TO COME TO WORK WHEN GOVERNMENT SAID THEY SHOULD BE CLOSED PLS PLS PEACE FM CAN YOU HIGHLIGHT THIS IN YOUR NEWS AND LET THE EDUCATION MINISTRY BE AWARE. SAFETY FIRST PLS
Absolute ***barred word***,these people are just heartless attention seekers.do you know how much pain and trouble these weeks of lockdown has caused already??? Maybe you’re living in your lofty places but there are those of us who don’t have enough for two days without work.the solution is not lockdown,the key is social distancing Mr president don’t let kind of people patronize you, the lockdown is enough.spend your energy on social distancing
This is non sense. The president doesn't know what he is doing. If he had lockdown once and for all, no one would be coming back to call for total lockdown. Total lockdown means those of us in Accra and kumasi never come out of the lockdown because Accra and kumasi happen to be the epicenters. You can't open Accra and close the rest of the nation. It won't work. So we have to go extra mile. Aban bon paaaa nie. All they think is politics, but this sickness is not political so the earlier you act the better. 21 days means the government should have locked down who nation for one month straight away. They are wasting so much money to provide food for few Ghanaians in Accra, tema, kasoa and kumasi when if the whole Ghana was locked down they monies could have supported more vulnerables elsewhere too.
Dear Mr President, 2020 elections would only be contested on effective leadership and how you were able to fight the pandemic. voters register will help, tribalism will not help, dishing out money will not help, media propaganda will not help. As at now you are loosing thru effective leadership. Your communicators are very poor in information disemination. Food distribution is politicized, and few are taking advantage to milk the system to make a little bit- it is eye catching and nobody is taking action to correct this anomaly. Please strategize because you have become the spokesperson so every failure/wrongly doing by party members would be attributed to you. Let us see change and stop the political commentators because they are making you unpopular. As at now no one cares, no love for the country and opposition is taking advantage of the negatives in the system. You may have good intentions but what is going is a test of your effective leadership
Are these peop le even serious?! Do they [BPS] not consider how the government rush into things and fail to implement things properly? The food supplies, water and the electricity the president announced have not been worthy to the low-income people (the poor) but mostly to those with higher income. Not to mention of we the self-employed with daily income wages. These people and the government don't give a damn about us - they only do what benefits the likes of them. So they should really consider the necessary steps (proper steps I mean) to help those that are impacted the most instead of trying to get public attention in such manner. Ghana ain't a well-established country like America, Europe, etc so let's not force ourselves to become them.
Are these people medical experts? Everybody wants to be heard.
But who told you the government is open us up for work after the one week extension... please..let the government do his own thing. We don't want a case when the government extend it by 2 weeks and you will come out and say you advised the government...we don't even need studies to tell us that we need more than 3 weeks lock down . The figures speak for themselves. I don't think the government is blind to the skyrocket figures...
you are really enjoying this aren't you.
You think you are wiser than Ghanains. Even with partial lockdown you hired people to blame the government for not giving them food. Your paymasters are resisting the government from using the Heritage fund. Where were you during the 5 year dumsor. We not seen sharing food to the needy as other patriotic people are doing. Tell those behind you that you have failed.