General News of Monday, 6 September 2021
Source: rainbowradioonline.com
2021-09-06
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has finally reacted to calls for the reopening of borders.
According to him, until health experts are certain that reopening of land borders will not pose problems for the country, it is not advisable to do so.
He posited that Ghana is not is still not out of the woods as regards the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Akufo-Addo explained, “the land borders pose a different kind of problem. You have got unauthorised ways of coming into the country, controlling that is still difficult. It is doubtful the system of testing at the borders can be as rigorous as they are at Kotoka.”
“There are lots of our people who are doing this coming and going on a daily basis [at land borders], how are we going to test people? Until we are sure that we have strong control over it, we need to be careful.”
Some residents in Elubo and Volta recently held separate demonstrations demanding the reopening of their borders.
But the president was of the view that the reopening could bring challenges for us.
“Are you going to insist everyone who comes [through the border and back] is vaccinated? Are you going to persist to enforce that? How many of our people have we been able to vaccinate?.”