Abla Dzifa Gomashie, the Member of Parliament for Ketu South in the Volta Region, has urged the government to open the borders so businessmen and women can trade as she believes by so doing the economic stress in the country will be lessened.
According to her, this call from her to the government is to relieve the distress and burden her constituents are currently going through due to the loss of capital.
It could be recalled that Ghana’s land, sea, and air borders were closed in March 2020 to stop the importation of the Coronavirus diseases (COVID-19).
Mrs. Gomashie made this assertion during an interview on Citi TV.
“His Excellency the President, perhaps it is because of us that divine favor found him to be the ECOWAS chair. This is why I am encouraging him to use that opportunity to negotiate with his colleague Heads of State and find a solution, just as he did for the air travel for the borders.”
“He can institute some kind of protocol that will not spread the virus. We want the border opened. Besides, people are crossing either way. You can go to the stations and see the number of people that commute in and out of the country. Those who can pay are moving to and fro freely, how about my people who want to go and trade? They should equally be given the opportunity. Depriving the people of benefiting from the border is mean. Why don’t we just formalize it? Let’s cut the pretense.”
Source: Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
