Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has criticized the Akufo-Addo led government’s decision to declare a lockdown in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak.

He says, the plan was poorly thought through, arguing that it will not solve any problem in the fight against the pandemic.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday imposed a lockdown on areas seen as hotspots of the COVID-19 disease in Ghana; the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) including Kasoa in the Central Region as well as parts of the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area (GKMA) which includes Kumasi the Ashanti Region.

The lockdown is expected to take effect on Monday, March 30, 2020, at 1 am.

However, in an interview with Accra based Citi News, Ras Mubarak said the many exemptions granted by the President is a clear indication of an unstrategic move that will render the lockdown totally ineffective.

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“Before we got here, how come no plans were made for Kayayei who are now going back to their respective hometowns. We have the risk of spreading the virus to other parts of the country because someone was clearly sleeping on the job. There were other urgent statements in respect of COVID-19 and how we will deal with it.”

“These statements have not been admitted and we are here with a partial lockdown that has not been properly thought through because if you look at the exemptions basically there is no lockdown. One will have thought that people who would have been affected in the country, there would have been a coherent strategy in ameliorating their difficulties,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo announced the lockdown as an additional means of combating the disease which experts say may escalate if drastic measures are not adopted now.