Sammy Gyamfi Praises Nana Addo Over Measures to Control Covid-19

Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has commended recent measures adopted by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as part of efforts to fight the widely-spread Coronavirus.

The President, in a televised message Sunday April 5, announced some relief measures for frontline health workers and citizens. Among other things, he announced a three-month tax holiday, and a 50% additional allowance for all front-line workers and a daily allowance of GHC150.00 for all contact tracers.

He also announced a ‘no-water bill’ policy for the next three months for all citizens.

Many have since welcomed Akufo-Addo’s message, lauding him, particularly on social media.

Sammy Gyamfi, in a statement said the provisions were laudable and would go a long way to ‘cushion the vulnerable and Ghanaians at large”.

“It is a vital necessity in a time like this. We, therefore, support any policy or program that is intended to cushion Ghanaians against the impact of the pandemic”, he added.

Mr. Gyamfi was, however, quick to add that these interventions were proposed by leader of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama who foresaw the need and therefore campaigned for them.

“Indeed, most of the newly announced interventions, such as free water, distribution of free food to deprived communities in lockdown areas, provision of insurance to our frontline health workers, local production of PPEs among others, were first canvassed by H.E John Dramani Mahama. We are glad that at long last, President Akufo-Addo is beginning to adopt these recommendations.”

He further added other proposals including the cancellation of the Communication Service Tax (CST), the scrapping of taxes on essential products and the provision of free electricity for all Ghanaians.