Dr. Randy Abbey, host of Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV, says the novel Coronavirus has exposed a lot of fundamental weaknesses in the country. He added that the end of this novel virus should not take the country back to the old ways of doing things.
According to him, the country struggled in dealing with four hundred thousand of those who are considered as vulnerable or underprivileged during the period the president announced a three-week lockdown in Greater Accra, Tema, Kasoa and Greater Kumasi.
Dr Abbey who was a guest on ‘The KSM Show’ on Metro TV Friday, May 1, 2020, said that Ghana had no data on such people, which made it difficult for the country to properly share food to these individuals… “that brought into sharp focus the welfare nature of this country”.
He added: "Until COVID-19, we were using all manner of superlatives to talk about how well we have done but all of a sudden, this thing which is not even three-months old in Ghana is telling us that indeed we have not done anything.”
Dr Abbey noted that COVID-19 has “actually brought to the fore the weaknesses…whatever we have; the supper structure is on a very weak foundation.”
He indicated that due to poor preparation, a lockdown which was to combat the spread of the novel Coronavirus amongst the Ghanaian citizenry would have rather killed the very people the country decided to protect because of hunger.
“Whilst others are talking about the new normal, how are we averting our minds to what the new normal is and which steps are we taking to ensure that we will be ready for the new normal or we are really adapting to the new normal. Are we rather talking about this too shall pass and not waiting for it to pass so that we get back to our comfort zone?” he quizzed.
Dr Randy Abbey explained that there are many things that have happened which has given Ghanaians the opportunity to do things differently but these opportunities have been made to slip by.
“What is the encouragement that this too shall pass?” he asked.
Ghana's Coronavirus case count stands at 2,169 with 229 recoveries and 18 deaths.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Randy has said nothing meaningful. It is the same bland statements so- called elite make because they have access to media. No serious solutions to consider. But come to think that Randy was the front man to JDM' s Residency, just recently. Did he not see the weak foundations he sees today? He now knows killing this nation with shoddy infrastructure was not the way to go? But he must be candid to admit his role in this failure.
Well we are not going to fly on AIRBUS with an incompetent pilot through DUMSO to IMF anymore when little BABIES👶 WITH SHARP TEETH 🦷 are on board and land us on WOYOMEY’S backyard. I know there could be FORD EXPEDITION to take us by land but we would have preferred to take BUS 🚌 BRANDING driven by ATIVOR in the middle of BERKO POWER BRIBERY CRISIS that’s why I decree like the Jews said never again to ndc and their INCOMPETENT NICE MAN. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
Dr Randy Abbey, Dr indeed, Dr of what? any ***barred word*** can get a Doctorate degree, let him go and study medicine and get a medical degree then he can talk. such foolishness, no wonder only the JOHN was there to grace the occasion of another JOHN RANDY
Can somebody tell me where he got his doctorate from. What a tosa
***barred word*** aaa kwa.
Randy's assessment is too sweeping.l prefer he appreciated where we have strengths as against our weaknesses and suggest how to improve on the latter.To say we have done nothing is a big flop and unbecoming of a learned person like him.
What a comment.
Well we are not going to fly on AIRBUS with an incompetent pilot through DUMSO to IMF anymore when little BABIES👶 WITH SHARP TEETH 🦷 are on board and land us on WOYOMEY’S backyard. I know there could be FORD EXPEDITION to take us by land but we would have preferred to take BUS 🚌 BRANDING driven by ATIVOR in the middle of BERKO POWER BRIBERY CRISIS that’s why I decree like the Jews said never again to ndc and their INCOMPETENT NICE MAN. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
those who appear on your show, do you deduct the withholding tax of 5% ? a lot of people and institutions do not pay the appropriate tax. how much do you pay on your income. please disclose for me to know how much you paid for last year on your assesable income. Akufo Addo is doing a wonderful work. when we give birth more than we can cater for, we would also be poor. just learn and stop the that Doctor.
What have been done that has been undone, and since when? Stomach politicians. Your master claims to have done almost everything, cos he claims credit for even Infrastructures in his "green book", which doesn't exist on the ground.