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At what some could say was the midpoint in the scourge of the Coronavirus pandemic, she just waltzed through arrival and departure formalities in some four (4) international airports with less or sometimes no stringent protocols on observing COVID-19 safety rules.

Incredibly, at these renowned international airports, there was no provision for sanitizers even after undergoing biometrical screening.

Sounds far-fetched, right?

Even upon all the education that after touching contaminated surfaces, the risk of inadvertently transferring the virus to other sensitive parts of the body - mouth, nose, eyes - is stark, COVID-19 safety protocols was virtually non-existent in these acclaimed airports.

Thankfully, our heroine (for now, let's describe her as such) had her personal sanitizer at hand, so after those in the queue were biometrically screened, she quickly applied it before and after placing her fingers on the biometric machine at these airports.

A narrow escape there, you might say.

The above is no fiction! It is as real as a pre-recorded address by President Akufo-Addo updating Ghanaians on the novel Coronavirus or the never-ending bickering between the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress over some trivial matter; that's how tangible the story above is!

A traumatic experience by all accounts, the details of renowned journalist and broadcaster Oheneyere Gifty Anti's journey outside the country and mandatory quarantine upon return to her homeland, is indeed gripping.

Her riveting narrative is a potential dramatic thriller fit for the screens, but certainly not K***wood; you get the drift.

In an exclusive interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', her very first public interaction after undergoing a 14-day mandatory quarantine, the Standpoint hostess highlighted some of her high and low moments.

Her cravings for waakye - a local dish of cooked rice with indigenous leaf and black-eyed peas or kidney beans - mostly sold by roadside vendors, need for a particular brand of bottled water since she was allergic to what was being offered to her at her hotel, albeit quarantine quarters and British Airways decision not to allow persons without Ghanaian passport to board its flight to Accra.

But perhaps, what really tugged at the heart was her account of how her two-year-old daughter Nyame Anuonyam failed to make her out when she (Gifty) called from the isolation centre. 

"I did only four videos and people will see me smiling that was when I was in a high spirit there were days I will break down and cry. There was a day I called the house to speak to my daughter and when she was told she had a call, she asked: ‘who is that’; I wept uncontrollably; it broke my heart and that shows the emotional trauma I was going through. I said to myself so if the worst were to happen, my daughter will not remember me?" Oheneyere choked back.



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