The Minority caucus in Parliament has called on the government to immediately evacuate Ghanaians living in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
The Minority Ranking members on the Health and Foreign Affairs, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa made the call when they spoke to the members of the parliamentary press corps on Tuesday afternoon [February 11, 2020].
They argued that it was unfathomable that President Akufo-Addo has remained quiet on the matter since the outbreak while his administration seems unmoved by the distress calls by Ghanaian students in Wuhan.
Admitting that they were mindful of the available World Health Organisation (WHO) protocols on evacuations, they insisted those protocols could be followed in the evacuation process.
”We have convened this press conference to renew our demands on the Akufo-Addo led government to immediately evacuate our nationals in Wuhuan, particularly students who are stranded and continue to cry out for help. The leadership of this country, cannot be callous, cannot be insensitive… when it is about the life of our nation. It is in times like these that we asses the value that leadership places on the life of our citizens. We hereby call on the Akufo-government to immediately evacuate our students, particularly those under lock and key."
“We have discussed as a Minority and the leadership of the Minority caucus have asked that we give a three-day ultimatum to the Akufo-Addo government. They have three days, latest by Friday, the evacuation of Ghanaian students should take place and these students should be brought to us. We owe them. We should not be callous and insensitive to their plight,” Mr Ablakwa said.
Source: GNA
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Where is politics taking us? Does NDC have to play politics with everything? How do you evacuate some one from a city currently under a knock down state? When no one goes in nor comes out. China is not like Ghana where laws do not work. Laws work in China so if the State says one thing you cannot do another thing on your own. Get over the bitterness and wise up NDC
So far Kwabena Minta Akandoh(the son of concert man of KK's No. 2 fame) display his ignorance beyond doubt. World Health Organisation has warn of the movement of people in the affected arrears. Akadaoh please built makeshift tent or place in your constituency so that when the government bring they relocated them to place. Daawa konko, think before you open your smelly mouth. Cheap politics is diminishing your little image.
this one too ndc npp
Some one should please answer my question of why the NDC leadership are full of fooooooooooo14lllls. The case in China now is not war ooo for the government to just evacuate it's citizens. This is a disease which can easily be transferred to other countries and even WHO has warned the to and fro movement with countries dealing with china. Can the minority tell us that none of the Ghanaians in china has contracted the disease before just asking the government to bring them into our mist to infect us?
THIS MINORITY LACK SE-NSE. THEY JUST SPEAK ANYHOW BECAUSE OF POLITICS. LISTEN TO THEM:........Admitting that they were mindful of the available World Health Organisation (WHO) protocols on evacuations, they insisted those protocols could be followed in the evacuation process........ WHAT ARE THE "WHO" PROTOCOLS? DO YOU NECESSARILY NEED TO EVACUATE THEM TO GHANA? WHEN NDC WANTS PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR VOTES, THEY SPEAK ANYHOW. HASN'T THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH SPOKEN ON THIS?