Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has called on the government to make public their social interventions and stakeholder meetings that preceeded the reopening of schools for Ghanaians to appreciate their efforts.
Kweku Baako believes publishing all that the government has done before the schools reopened and with regard to protecting students against the spread of COVID-19 will help to bring the matters to rest.
He made this comment following calls on President Nana Akufo-Addo to shut down schools after students in some Senior High Schools tested positive for the virus.
Schools like the Accra Technical University, Accra Girls' SHS and others in the Greater Accra and Western Regions have recorded cases of the COVID-19.
Fifty-five (55) students and staff of the Accra Girls' SHS, according to the Ghana Education Service, have tested positive for the virus.
Due to this, the President has been asked to close the schools to curb the disease.
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has also lambasted the President for refusing to allow the school children to return home and painted a picture that he and his government are cruel and also exploiting the students for political gains.
But, according to Kweku Baako, the government has taken precautionary measures to safeguard the students.
Speaking to host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Mr. Baako was of the view that the opposition party and critics are trying to trivialize the President's efforts to protect the students, hence wants the government to publicize the processes they went through before reopening the schools.
"The engagements they had, the school authorities they engaged; they should publish, publicize and communicate those things . . . the supplies they have made, the number of sanitizers they've distributed and so forth including the schools they have provided these things.
''Put it out there. Let people know that this is the commitment. This is the management process that's going on. It doesn't mean you have 100 percent solution or everything is fine but people will understand you when they have the info," he advised the President.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Let me ask Kwaku Baako: Will publishing those engagements stop the spread of the virus among the students? He talks plennnnty but no solution. We are not interested in efforts! What we need immediately is to stop the further spread of the virus among students; the politicians can go ahead and seek their parochial interests but our kids should not be used as pawns in this game of political chess! The common***barred word*** question to ask is this: you closed all schools across the country when Ghana had just reported 2 cases(imported)! Now you have as many as 55 cases in a single school which has quickly seen a spread in about 8 other schools and you don't think it makes sense to close schools? And at the same time you now have community- spread which you didn't have when you closed down the schools after reporting the two imported cases. How hypocritical can you be! I just cannot see the logic in keeping schools open at this time! And you have a deputy minister of health, who happens to be a medical doctor, suggest that we should wait till we reach 15% before they decide whether or not to close down schools! There were just 8 cases reported at Accra girls which suddenly jumped to 55! Does anyone need telling where we are headed with this? Nana should save a face and admit that the decision to open schools was a mistake and that decision should be rresceneded immediately. After all those who opened their schools and closed them when it turned out to be ill-advised ; were they put to death? Lives are more important than anyone trying to cover his or her mistakes or not bruise their egos!