General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says he has reasons to believe that the objective of Ghanaians in the fight against the novel coronavirus is quite different from that of President Akufo-Addo's government.
He explained that the Akufo-Addo administration missed the point at the initial stage when the country had two confirmed cases as the President at that time should have closed the borders of the country.
He stressed that the mandatory quarantine and contact tracing would have been more effective had the government begun it at the early stage.
“The preparation of the government after closing the borders and the airport should have been to conduct contact tracing which they are now doing when the country had two confirmed cases at the beginning of the spread. At that time, contact tracing would have been more effective than the current situation,” he argued.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, General Mosquito as he is popularly called insisted that the Akufo-Addo administration's failure to put measures in place on time worsened the situation as we now have community spread.
He again asserted that the Akufo-Addo government without clear objective in the fight against the COVID-19 failed to carry out mass testing to cover those who have the virus and those who don’t have it in the epicentres, making it difficult to contain the virus.
With our decentralisation syetem, the NDC Chief Scribe was optimistic that the country could have contained the virus within the first two weeks of the partial lockdown as government could have bought a lot of test kits and protective gears for the health workers to do mass testing.
“ . . he should come out to tell Ghanaians the number of PPEs he has been able to buy for the professional health workers, but whenever the President talks about coronavirus, his focus is rather on the foodstuffs they are distributing to Ghanaians,” he mentioned.
He reiterated that the health workers will choose their lives over incentives that the President is promising them, hence the need for the government to provide them with the PPEs as a matter of priority.
He believes the objective of the government is different from that of Ghanaians.
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This guy is the one that called Rawlings an Old mad dog " with no teeth who just barks in the Party...this is the same man that is the chairman of Bui dams founded by NPP regime,this man owes 10 long Trailers ,petrol tankers and stations , Lets ask ourselves what work did did man do to acquire all this wealth within 10 years ???@### hmm Ghanaians should think very careful bout this illiterate guy who has amassed all this wealth in the name of politics and continue to throw Dust in the people's eyes with the sole intention of coming Back to power and loot and steal again like the NDC Paliamentarians were taking double checks of dead ppls names ,they will all be dealt with after the coronavirus,imagine if we had all this money there wouldn't be no need for the government to go for loans ,U guys collapsed Ghana by using our taxes to buy Aeroplanes, nkomfem,and taking your girlfriends to the UK with cocaine ,and when Ghanaians complain u tell us YEN TIE OBIAA!!@@ SO Y DO U GOAT LIKE ASIEDU NKETIA SHOULD WE LISTEN TO U ***barred word***
Look at this fo0l too. Should we do politics with everything> NDC is cursed to stay in opposition forever with such people in the party
what is wrong with this i.d.i.o.t? is he not the same person who said the lock down is a ploy for the govt to put in place an effective rigging plan for election 2020? it is a pity that we have tolerated an i.d.i.o.t like this in our political space
Papa wei ni gy1m11111 di3 he has no match in Ghana. Cross dresser asiedu nketia like his directionless NDC, has nothing to offer. With all their nefarious c0rr--up+ deals that made people like him overnight billionaires in the NDC and Ghana, popping up like the AIRBUS and power deals coming out of the woodwork, he has nothing but to be a c!0wn and spew garbag£ as a diversionary tactic. It is not working and won't work. Ghana and the world shall overcome COVID-19.
the man has nothing to say yet he has to be heard
the NDC collected bribes like the air we breath. where is the funds to buy the testing kits. the government is doing a wonderful work under the circumstances. you collapsed all the banking and financial sector. see how the government of ghana is struguling to serve the under performing financaial sector. do not show your ignorance. you be educating the public about what to do in this difficult period. what it was close late or not, the virus is in ghana. what is the better way forward. do not take us back at all. you should be distributing food, water and veronica buckets to areas and communities in need instead of sitting ideal on radio and just talking by hart.
We are tired of you politicians
This Asiedu Nketiah guy is very sarcastic..... When you guys were in power cholera killed us and your government did not know what to do. Shuttt uppppp!