Nigerian actor Joseph Okechukwu has hailed President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo for lifting a three-week lockdown imposed on some selected cities in the country.
The film star believes that Akufo-Addo has shown great leadership and allayed fears.
“You have lifted the cloud of fear over the citizens of Africa not just Ghanaians…You have given life to so many people in Africa and we would never forget you for this,” the Nollywood actor said.
President Akufo-Addo lifted the three-week lockdown in his address to the nation on Sunday, April 19.
Akufo-Addo said the decision to lift the lockdown is “in view of our ability to undertake aggressive contact tracing of infected persons, the enhancement of our capacity to test, the expansion in the numbers of our treatment and isolation centres, our better understanding of the dynamism of the virus,
“the ramping up of our domestic capacity to produce our own personal protective equipment, sanitisers and medicines, the modest successes chalked at containing the spread of the virus in Accra and Kumasi, and the severe impact on the poor and vulnerable.”
He however stressed that the ban on social gatherings and the closure of Ghana’s borders are still in force.
President Akufo-Addo further extended the closure of Ghana’s borders by two more weeks.
Ghana has recorded 1,042 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country.
The Nigerian actor Joseph Okechukwu urged other African leaders to use data generated in their country on the behaviour of the virus to decide whether the now popular lockdown of cities was necessary or not.
