Ghana’s largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has labelled the partial lockdown of Accra, Kumasi, Tema and Kasoa as a failed one.
According to the NDC, the 48-hours that was given prior to the lockdown made the whole lockdown a failed one.
Speaking on Citi FM, a member of the NDC’s COVID-19 team, Dr Grace Ayensu Dankwa stated that the lockdown should have been immediate and that the delay may have caused people infected with the disease to travel out of the epicentres.
In her submission, she said;
“It was actually a lockdown of the people in the geographical area. So, in other words, it was more like we wanted to quarantine all the people in Accra. So you make an announcement two days, three days that you are going to lockdown Accra on Monday and what happened was more of what we predicted–the human beings that we were sort of concerned about, most of them left the area to other regions in the country…The way this lockdown happened we think it has backfired in the sense that, the lockdown was not a geographical lockdown.”
Source: ghgossip.com
