Ghanaian singer and songwriter, Rocky Dawuni has asked the government to support local herbalists because they can find the cure to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Grammy Awards nominee made the comments in reaction to the news that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo signed the UNAIDS public letter to make the Coronavirus vaccine free for all when it is finally obtained.

Some believe that the President might have been wrong to sign the deal, as it will turn Africans into ‘guinea pigs’ for the western powers and Rocky Dawuni has further solidified the claim by proposing that Ghana can find the cure to the Coronavirus on her own. 

“My take on it is that I said from the beginning that we should consider the nim tree. Because you don’t just fight disease by washing your hands but we need to strengthen our immune system to fight the disease. We need to apply the medicinal plants that our forefathers used to cure many diseases in the past, so actually we can get the solution to Coronavirus from nature. But what I have realized is that the western powers want to develop a certain vaccine by any means possible,” he tendered his thoughts in an interview with Amansan Krakye on GBC Radio Central.

“…we don’t even know where this vaccine is coming from so we can’t allow anyone to just come and start giving us injections. Because we also have people who are well endowed with herbal medicine who we can empower to conduct research in our Universities to find us the cure for Coronavirus.”

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"I fully support what Madagascar is doing and I expect the government to challenge the Centre for Plant Medicine and our Chemists to come up with a solution. Madagascar took the lead and did the right thing but I’m not surprised it is not globally accepted as the cure because it originated from Africa. 

“Even if their medicine is not a complete cure but just a remedy that can support, we have to inspire other African countries to take that path but as for the vaccine, I don’t think it is the solution.”

 “It is becoming always one way that we must be injected with a vaccine whenever there is a disease outbreak. I believe we have passed that way and Africa must stand for ourselves by putting our own destiny in our hands because if someone is planning to cause us to harm it is easy to do that through the vaccine. 

“God has given us wisdom and we have been able to survive with plant medicine on this continent for thousands of years despite several disease outbreaks. We can’t continue to use ourselves as anybody’s experiment.”