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COVID-19: Extend Lockdown to other parts of the Country-Group pleads with Nana Addo

Nana Kwasi Kwarteng
Spokesman for Operation Save the Suffering Masses(OSSM), a Human Right organization based in Kumasi, Nana Kwasi Kwarteng has pleaded with the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a Human Right activist to extend the one week extension of the lockdown to all the corners of the country.

  Nana Kwasi Kwarteng is of this view because, since Governments policy in this entire drama will be largely driven by science and considering the vast majority of the peoples ignorance when it comes to matters like this, absolute control of experts should be paramount.

 Government on Thursday 9th April, 2020 extended the lockdown imposed on some parts of the country by one more week.

 The President earlier announced a two-week partial lockdown of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area including Tema and Kasoa as well as the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area as parts of the effort to stop the spread of the viral disease in the country.

 The decision was also aimed at assisting the government enhance its contact tracing and testing efforts.

 The President said the new cases were detected as a result of the ongoing enhanced contact tracing and testing exercise.

 According to Nana Kwasi Kwarteng, if the one week lockdown is extended country wide it will create awareness and all the precautionary measures put in place would be at the door steps of the people.

 Our culture and lifestyle is not the same as the somehow advanced countries, and so our means of combating or fighting COID 19 should be very pragmatic, he added

 The extension which takes effect from Monday, April 13, 2020 will be subject to review.

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