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Sunyani Municipality Chief Executive Officer Justina Owusu-Banahene said on Thursday that the Assembly’s Covid-19 task force would arrest schoolchildren without face masks.
According to her, district assembly officials will identify and subsequently sanction the parents of these children for not wearing the masks. She advised parents to provide their children with face masks and hand sanitizers to protect them from Covid-19.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Mad Owusu-Banahene, who is also the Minister-designate for the Bono region, said the Assembly would deploy its Covid-19 task force to patrol and enforce protocols in the municipality.
Ms Justina noted that the Assembly, with support from the central government, had already provided basic schools in the municipality with personal protective equipment (PPE), including Veronica buckets, nasal masks and hand sanitizers to alcohol based.
She added that the Covid-19 task force had done a great job last year and that it had helped the Assembly contain and prevent the spread of the pandemic.
Ms Justina added that the working group was however withdrawn along the way because the masses adhered to the protocols.
“Since the task force was removed from the street of Sunyani, many people are complacent and do not wear nasal masks and observe social distancing in public places,” she said.
Mad Owusu-Banahene said the Assembly would also support and relaunch the activities of “mask ambassadors”, a group that defended the use of nasal or face masks.
The Sunyani municipal director general called on businesses, religious bodies and civil society organizations to support ambassadors with face masks intended for public distribution.
She revealed that her company has re-embraced the rotation system that would separate traders and traders to reduce congestion at the central market in Nana Bosoma and the main market in Sunyani.
Mad Owusu-Banahene expressed his gratitude to the Sunyani Traditional Council, and Nana Bosoma Asor NKrawiri II, Supreme Leader of Sunyani, in particular, for supporting the assembly last year.
She urged school leaders and teachers to ensure students use PPE appropriately.
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