While some Ghanaians have lauded the president's directive on public gatherings due to the recent increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the country, the opposition party, National Democratic Congress thinks otherwise.
According to Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC, the real intention of the ban on public gatherings by the president is to rig the 2020 elections.
"This whole announcement of emergency ban, emergency here, stopping this gathering, stopping that gathering, in my view, on the surface, it will appear to the world that the president is acting to deal with the COVID-19 and so on.
But the real intention is not to deal with COVID-19 at all. The real intention is to find space to put the pieces of the rigging equipments together. So that by the time anybody could say jack, the election has been compromised," he said in an interview monitored by GhanaWeb.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday announced some bold directives as part of measures to stop the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The President placed a ban on church-related activities, mosques prayers, and all other public gatherings exceeding 25 persons. That was during his second address to the nation on the Coronavirus update.
He also directed airlines to stop bringing in travellers from countries that have recorded over 200 cases of coronavirus effective Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
Deputy Comptroller of Immigration (DCGI) in-charge of Command Post and Operations, Laud Kwesi Affrifah at a press briefing yesterday revealed that his outfit together with the Kotoka International Airport authorities refused about 200 foreign nationals entry into the country as part of measures to curb a spread of COVID-19 in Ghana.
“Over 200 people have been turned back. Only those with resident permits are being allowed in," he said.
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Sometimes I wonder if some people think before speaking. I have always and will always say that this man lacks maturity despite his age. In the name Politics you say anything you want. May God deliver his people.
WHY DO YOU MEDIA PRESS BRING SUCH COMMENTS TO THE PUBLIC. THIS TELLS ME YOU YOU DONT HAVE EDUCATED AND THINKABLE EDITORS. sUCH COMMENTS SHOULD NOT BE PUBLISHED.
I support Asiedu on this one...what has Nana done on road fatalities? What has Nana done on luck of housing? What has Nana done on malaria control? What has Nana done on poor road networks? What has Nana done on joblessness? What has Nana done on low wages? What has Nana done on development of Ghana? ETC...COVID 19 is white man disease...just as malaria is black man disease. So stop the panic which u hope will keep u in power beyong 2020 without election
It's quite surprising that educated people who are supposed to know better appear to sell their conscience to dirty politics.
Oh may coronavirus come take you to your grave Amen and Amen!!!!!!!
K W A S I A BI SU
A whole general sec.infact this man is a borla.
It seems NDC is more concerned about the rigging of the 2020-elections by the NPP-Administration than the fatal danger the coronavirus poses to our life as Nation. If that is the case, and what NDC wants us to believe, then, I would suggest that we postpone the 2020-election to 2024 and allow the President pro bonus term of one. After all, he is doing marvelously well and NDC, as it stands now, can never be a better alternative in terms of good Governance. I'm confident NDC would be more comfortable with that solution than the rig-phobia stance it had taken to the 2020-elections.
Asiedu Nkatia, Asiedu Nkatia, Asiedu Nkatia, how many times have I called you? I hope if you are reading comments here you will be ashamed and fell sorry for yourself. Because of politics you are loosing respect and good sense of judgement. You and NDC said elections are won at the pooling stations so what has changed now?,are we at the pools for someone to rig? No wonder the likes of Sammy Gyamfi, Otukonor, Omane Boamah and other babies with shaft teeth speak and behave like that because you have trained them
***barred word*** politician, Ghana is thinking about surviving you are thinking about election. God punish ***barred word*** politician like yourself - ***barred word***