The Executive Director of Irbard Security Consult, Alhaji Irbard Ibrahim has warned against hard-handedness on Ghanaians who may be starving during the fortnight lockdown by security agencies, indicating it has the potency of making the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government unpopular.
He argues that not all citizens within the lockdown areas will be able to afford square meals underscoring the need for the state to provide a door-to-door rationing to such persons in order not for the lockdown to backfire.
“If guns are turned on Ghanaians who defy a prolonged lockdown as a result of starvation, that will be the easiest way to make this Government unpopular by calling it a government killing its own people and a government that evokes horrendous memories of the days of military juntas in Ghana”, he disclosed
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A LOCKDOWN WITH NO EXIT STRATEGY ISN’T CONVINCING ENOUGH
I certainly don’t envy the President at this moment of choosing between two difficult options.
1. What next after the two weeks of lockdown if Ghana continues to record new cases?
2. Hunger is more deadly than Corona virus. Starving fathers can’t afford to watch their wives and kids twitch with hunger. They will go out and meet the security forces on the street.
3. Self-preservation is the first rule of human survival. With no plans for rations from Government, what is an AK 47 in the face of existential hunger?
4. A prolonged lockdown could lead to mass looting of supermarkets and consumable shops that will overwhelm the police and the army.
5, if guns are turned on Ghanaians who defy a prolonged lockdown as a result of starvation, that will be the easiest way to make this Government unpopular by calling it a government killing its own people and a government that evokes horrendous memories of the days of military juntas in Ghana.
