Peter Lanchene Toobu, Parliamentary Candidate for Wa West, 2020.

13/05/2020

31/03/2020

*Ghana can be free from COVID-19 within 28 days if we cut the spread and not the budget*

Your Excellency,

I salute you for the efforts and strategies rolled out to help Ghana fight this existential pandemic called COVID-19. It has an incubation period of 14 days and any strategy that can be effective in two periods (28 days) should kick out the virus from Ghana.
In this era long write-ups are unattractive to the tensed minds particularly people in leadership positions who must show the way and move all of us along. I can't therefore afford but to go straight into the details.
It's important to note that a single confirmed case in a country if unchecked can lead to about 3500 cases within a week.
Your Excellency, in this scenario of fighting the pandemic in our own way respecting WHO protocols you opted for a *Partial Lockdown*(PL) This step is very much appreciated and should be appreciated by all.
You went for *PL* after recording 137 confirmed cases with 97% of these cases being imported. The compulsory quarantine of 1030 passengers who arrived on 22nd March 2020 has so far given us 78 confirmed cases. Those who arrived in Ghana before 22nd March are all in the system unkown and/or unmonitored and that's where we have the real danger. Your earlier directive/advisory on self-isolation had no effective monitoring mechanism and arriving passengers were left to their own conscience to either stay strictly to the protocols or do otherwise. I have followed a little on the *Juaso* incident and won't want to make any further comments on it but to say, that case has raised the red flag. May the soul of the departed rest in perfect peace. Also, the single confirmed case in *Wa* , UWR and its serious replica effect cannot be over emphasized.
The 48 hour notice given before the PL created a sense of uneasiness and many at the markets and various shopping centres did not seem to be aware of the need for Social Distancing. There was mass rush to stock stuff in preparatio

12/12/2019

**Flagged*

*Nepotism* is poison to the Rule of Law and a catalyst to a state of lawlessness.

*Supt* *Peter* *Lanchene* *TOOBU* ( *Retd* )