Ghanaian Students in China are calling on the Government of Ghana to assist to evacuate students stranded in China due to the coronavirus.
Speaking to Jevis Owusu Ansah, due to the issues in China most of the Students of other countries schedule for airlifting to their countries for quarantine.
Javis shares his grief having been abandoned as a student on China. He shares is messages.
“With all due respect, we no longer talking about evacuation but preparing for our members to get infected? The Chinese say we should hope for the best but plan for the worst. So I partly agree. I however think the Embassy can keep their support if this is only what they can deliver. The Chinese Government and the Schools of International Education are enough. Didn’t we witness the Ghanaian government charter flight to airlift money to Brazil for the Black Stars. Didn’t our President travel to watch the Champions League match in a chartered flight? I’m not going home, but members who are stranded and feeling trapped should be supported materially to go home. Our embassy should call the Egyptian and Moroccan Embassy to ask them how they are doing it. It seems Black (sub-Saharan) Africa is truly cursed. Black lives really matter and should be esteemed as sacred just as other lives. Why are our governments always the last to act? Why should we wait for our members to be infected and possibly die before we start acting?? The 1 or 2 million dollars they will spend to evacuate 1000 plus students can’t buy a life.
Evacuating people home is also a matter of national pride. We are failing not only this generation but the future generation as well. This current attitude imbues a sense of apathy, indifference and lack of nationalism as the citizens begin to think the country doesn’t care about or for them. We will have a generation of disloyal working class and the cycle will continue. Let’s think beyond ourselves and ask what we are leaving for the generation to come?”Javies a student in China shared.
Meanwhile, the Virology unit in Nuguchie has recently tested negative to the alleged two victims of the Coronavirus in Ghana.