The flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has called for an urgent meeting of the Authority of Heads of State and Governments of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss and take decisions on a sub-regional response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic across the West African Region.
Speaking during a Friday Muslim Prayer service to end three days of prayer and fasting called by the NDC, Mr Mahama, who is a former Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State, argued that the meeting of the sub-regional leaders is important and urgent to help in curbing the spread of the disease across the neighbouring countries.
“It is important for the ECOWAS to arrange an urgent teleconference of our Heads of State to coordinate a subregion-wide response to the COVID-19 disease. This might include restriction of movement between our countries”, he noted.
The prayer service, attended by the National Chief Iman Sheikh Nuhu Sharabutu, the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih, the Head of the Ahl-Sunnah al- Jamaat Sheikh Umar Ibrahim and other Muslim leaders followed a Christian service held on Sunday. The NDC declared the three days of fasting and prayers to seek God’s intervention in the wake of the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country.
Mr Mahama also urged the government to, as a matter of urgency, strengthen public health management procedures, and provide the needed resources and logistics for managing the pandemic.
This, he said, is critical if “frontline healthcare workers are to have the confidence to continue to battle the disease.”
“As has been outlined by our COVID Technical Team in its engagements, in addition to a concerted effort to provide regular, accurate and timely information, the government must work extra hard to ensure the implementation of adequate community mitigation measures”, Mr. Mahama added.
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Oooooh this man!!! Pls stop ALREADY!! stop and sit down!!!! Haba!!!!
UNFORTUNATELY, MOST OF THESE NPP FANATICS HAVE MAGGOTS IN THEIR HEADS AS BRAINS. COMMON ENGLISH THAT JOHN MAHAMA SAID HAS BECOME GREEK FOR THEIR INTERPRETATION. WHAT A WAHALA. WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TELECONFERENCING? GO USE YOUR ADVANCE OXFORD LEARNERS DICTIONARY WAI AND STOP YOUR CRASS-STU--PI--DI--TY.
Is John Ford Airbus Mahama aware most of the airports are closed? Has he heard of social distancing? How are you going to assemble the ECOWAS presidents? This John Ford guy is expired..... NDC must get rid of him quickly before he send the party to extinction. When will you address the airbus bribe issue?
This John is a disgrace to our country and he must immediately remove the country’s flag before he talks to the citizen because we have only one president in the country. There’s no way a flag bearer should use Ghana 🇬🇭 flag. NO ECOWAS MEETING FOR ANYTHING Mr incompetent nice man. This is why I decree like the Jews said NEVER AGAIN TO NDC. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
The incompetent one again
Greedy man! Go to the meeting with you and your family.
Calling ECOWAS meeting for what? Any problem this man doesn’t want to think for himself rather calling people to come over and help. The same way he called IMF to come help when he was in power. Waaaaaaaa look !
Same NDC 1d10ts asked for the evacuation of students from China to Ghana. They insulted the president everyday, especially Ablakwa. Now they claim the president did not close the borders fast enough. You see hypocrites? NDC is a use.less party with no brains at all.
THE VISION LEADER HAS MADE IT AGAIN JM YOU ARE THE BEST ,NOT THE GOOD FOR NOTHING ONE
This GUY is an ***barred word***. The NDC is PATHETIC, EVIL and a MENACE to GHANA. They Lack People with CRITICAL and INTELLECTUAL MINDS. They dont WISH anything GOOD for Ghana. All They KNOW is HURLING INSULTS, PROPAGANDA and VIOLENCE. Never AGAIN MAHAMA and the CLUELESS, INCOMPETENT and CORRUPT Party of and NDC.