COVID-19 TESTING: EXTORTION AT KIA MUST STOP €“ ABLAKWA

The MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has portrayed the current charges for Covid-19 testing at the Kotoka Universal Airport for universal entries as blackmail.

Concurring to Mr. Ablakwa, Frontline Healthcare Benefit Constrained with bolster from the officeholder government is extorting cash from ECOWAS nationals and non-ECOWAS nationals by charging them $50 and $150 individually.

Talking to JoyNews, he said such activities ought to be halted.

“One of the cardinal desires I have for 2022 which may be a see shared by numerous is that the blackmail going on at the Kotoka Universal Airport by Frontline Healthcare Administrations Constrained which is completely backed by the Akufo-Addo organization, that blackmail must halt.

Charging $50 for ECOWAS nationals and $150 for non-ECOWAS nationals for one antigen test, not a PCR test must halt.”

He included that “all over the world, we are seeing a extreme decay within the taken a toll of these tests” but “Ghana has been at this for nearly 2 a long time.”

Mr Ablakwa is of the see that the current charges are a major disincentive.

“It is such an extreme extortionist rate that cannot be permitted to continue,” he stressed.

The North Tongu administrator unveiled that ought to government fall flat to supply a audit by the conclusion of February on the taken a toll of Covid-19 testing at the airport, rigid activities will be taken to drive its hands.

“It is our desire that most recent by February, we ought to see a extreme audit. In case not, we are going to be compelled to require a arrangement of activities to constrain the hand of government to halt this blackmail at the airport,” he said.

In February last year, in the midst of the moment wave of Covid-19 within the nation, administration of the Kotoka Worldwide Airport (KIA) reexamined its security measures that must be entirely watched by travelers traveling to Ghana.

The unused security guidelines took impact from Monday, February 8, 2021.

The fetched of PCRs was presently US$50 for Ghanaians and ECOWAS citizens and US$150 for all other travelers.

Installment for these tests was to be done online some time recently entry at https://myfrontierhealthcare.com/Domestic/Ghana.