The National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is saying that decision for President Nana Akufo-Addo to lift restrictions on movement in Accra and Kumasi is “premature and politically-motivated.”
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According to the chief communicator of the opposition party, the president decided to play politics instead of following the scientific protocol of COVID-19.
Speaking on Happy FM’s Epa Hoa Daben show with Doctar Cann, he alleged that the move by Nana Addo is calculated to allow the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 general election and also allow his party to conduct primaries.
“Why the President will impose a partial lockdown with the objective of halting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, at a time we had only recorded 137 cases across just four regions of the country and with five deaths but turn around to lift the partial lockdown, at a time our positive case count has galloped to 1,042, across 10 regions and with nine deaths.”
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He added that “It is clearly a politically-motivated decision, calculated to allow the EC the space to undertake its entrenched and illogical determination to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 general elections and nothing more.”
Surprisingly, on the same show, Ras Mubarak, who lost his bid for re-election, lauded President Akufo-Addo for lifting the ban on the restriction of movements.
According to the MP, the lockdown had a negative impact on the poor. “Good decision to lift the restrictions. Poor people bore the full brunt of the lockdown and God knows what they’ve been through.
The President on Friday, March 27, 2020, placed four major cities, Accra, Tema, Kumasi, and Kasoa, under a three-week lockdown purposely to hold the spread of the coronavirus.
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However, in a late broadcast to the nation yesterday, President Akufo-Addo lifted the three-week lockdown imposed on the country.
He asserts that the lift of lockdown is to enable Ghanaians to go about their daily activities to ease the difficulty in standards of living by the lockdown.