AUDIO: NDC’s Position On Re-opening Of Schools

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The president of Ghana, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo gave the green light for final year tertiary, senior high, and basic school to reopen and complete their syllabus and eventually prepare for their upcoming final exams.

However, the largest opposition party in Ghana, NDC, through their national chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has revealed that the position of the party is that government and the health ministry embark on mass testing of student, teaching and non-teaching staff and see their status before allowed to go back to school.

The Chairman who could not fathom why continuous students are allowed to also go back to school amid the coronavirus pandemic even as they do not have any final exams to write.

“Our position is that if you want the students to go back to school, why do you allow the continuous students join the final students going because they have final exams. I believe that government embarks on mass testing such that students would be tested, teachers, matrons and cooks, so that they would know the status of the people in the school and that will bring peace.” – Samuel Ofosu Ampofo opined.

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Chairman Ofosu Ampofo made these revelations when on behalf of the party, together with other party executives, faithfuls, and sympathisers, donated PPEs to Begoro District Hospital to help them fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

Ghana has as of today recorded 12,193 case counts with 4,326 recoveries and 58 death.

As part of easing restrictions in Ghana, the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given the greenlight for commencement of academic calender but in phases.