Ranking Member of Parliament (MP) Select Committee on Health, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has encouraged all parents with their wards in the various Senior High Schools to go for them since government has refused to release them amid the rising cases of Coronavirus reported since the reopening of schools.
"I encourage all parents to go for their wards before they hear any unfortunate news . . . President Akufo-Addo is more interested in remaining in power than putting up qualified and appropriate measures to protect the lives of school children," he argued.
Speaking on UTV's Friday edition of 'Mpu ne Mpu' programme via telephone, the Juaboso MP insisted he does not have any advice to give parents than to ask them to go for their children since the government has refused to heed to sound counsel.
He said it is in President Akufo-Ado's selfish interest by allowing the Electoral Commission to register children in their various schools.
"President Akufo-Addo and his government have now made themselves clear why they are still keeping the SHS students in their various schools when cases of COVID-19 keep rising in the country each day," he asserted.
The Juaboso MP adviced that for the health and safety of the children which he believes is more important than any other thing, "there should be mass testing for COVID-19 in all Senior High Schools, out of which persons who test negative should be sent home whiles persons who test positive are isolated and treated".
13 final year SHS students in 4 schools test COVID-19 positive
Thirteen final year students in Senior High Schools in the country have tested positive for the global pandemic, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) few days after returning to school, the Ministry of Education has confirmed.
The Deputy Minister of Education, in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, confirmed that six students at the Accra Girls Senior High School tested positive. In addition, a teacher at the school together with his wife had also tested positive for the COVID-19.
Two other students from Odorgonor SHS equally tested positive for the disease in Accra.
In the Ashanti Region, three students at the Konongo Wesley SHS had tested positive for the COVID-19.
Meanwhile in the Central Region, the Mfantsipim School recorded two confirmed cases of the COVID-19, the Deputy Minister said, bringing the total number of students who have tested positive for the COVID-19 to 13.
According to the Deputy Minister, the students had been isolated and their parents had been informed to ensure it brings down the anxiety.
According to Dr Adutwum, 648 contacts tracing had been done and the people had been isolated, with a number of them tested by the Ghana Health Service.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi, peacefmonline.com
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Some of us who have the privilege to attend to the so called "posh" schools in Ghana most of us were living in a "ocompound house" as they are called back home in Ghana. Mr Akando should tell Ghanaians how many people were living in his house during all his years before he became a member of Parliament? Most Ghanaians are well informed so politicians should be careful.
When extremely shallow and weak minded ppl lead, the group suffers. NOTE THAT IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND, THE ONE EYE MAN IS THE KING (the case study of NDC)
NDC does not want your children to be educated. Don't go for them!
PLEASE, HON AKANDOH THIS IS BELOW BELT. COMMON SENSE SHOULD TELLS US THAT EVEN IF THE STUDENTS ARE AT HOME, THEY STILL GO AND REGISTER. PLS GO AND COME AGAIN.
is this guy really an MP. i feel sad for him the way he articulate issues. like a class one pupil. whaaat. no wonder he is an NDC person
In the first place Akando has no sense better than the parents. Moreso but for politics where would have Akando be with education. Simply put Akando does not value education and want to destroy the free SHS. Akand, the parents are wiser than you think.
If there are more than 600,000 students in in over 700 schools across the country and 13 students in 4 schools have got the virus, how can any one with working brain make such an irresponsible statement? Are Ghanaians not tired of this level of stuuupidity from this Akamdo boy? How can we have such a one as an MP?
IT IS SAFER FOR THE STUDENTS TO BE AT SCHOOL THAN AT HOME. THE SICK ONES AMONG THEM SHOULD BE QUARANTINED AND TREATED. WHEN THEY ARE SENT HOME THEY ARE GOING TO SPREAD THE VIRUS IN THEIR HOMES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE ARE MANY OLD AND VULNERABLE. AKANDO HAS NO SENSEEE. I DONT KNOW WHERE HE WENT TO SCHOOL TO GET KNOWLEDGE. HE IS DISGRACE TO HIS SCHOOL. THE STUDENT WOULD HAVE ALL THE SAME REGISTERED WHEREVER THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN. AKANDO SHOULD STOP BROADCASTING HIS EMPTY MIND IN THE PUBLIC. IT TARNISHES THE IMAGE OF PARLIAMENT IF WE HAVE SUCH PEOPLE LIKE HIM AS OUR LEGISLATURES.
Why are NDC leadership doing this to our great party? How can you just say parents should go for the children? Do you know the status of every child and have thought of the students transferring the covid from campus to the house which would be more dangerous? Ah what did we do to warrant this guys in our front line?