Ghanaians Angry With Bawumia For Comparing Ghana’s 2,719 COVID-19 Cases To Dumsor

The majority of well-meaning Ghanaians have expressed disgust at Ghana’s Vice president, Dr. Bawumai’s insensitive posture with how he is handling the global pandemic in Ghana.

Dr. Bawumia in an address during a media interaction in Accra today the 4th of May, 2020 made a comparison between two major crises in the erstwhile John Mahama and the current Nana Addo led administrations.

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According to him, “If you want to test the robustness of an economy, you test it in a time of crisis. Thankfully, we have had two crises. Under the NDC, there was an internally generated crisis which was Dumsor. Under the president of Nana Akufo-Addo, there’s been an externally generated crisis that is being a Coronavirus pandemic. I just want you to ask yourself, how have these two crises been managed?”

Watch his address below;

Two major crises have befallen our country in the last decade – Dumsor and Covid-19. The management of the economy under two different leaders during these crises periods is something we should all be interested in. pic.twitter.com/SVNNo5yAYv

— Ministry of Information (@moigovgh) May 4, 2020

In effect, Veep of Ghana, Bawumia is comparing the loss of lives with the loss of material production.

This did not sit well with Ghanaians. Many of them took to social media to vent their spleen towards the vice president.

Check a few below;

Bawumia is a national disaster we will deal with after this pandemic, he's proven why a team of 40 Economists were selected to deal with our Forex and he was not selected.

— Fbappiah🕎✡️🇬🇭 (@Fbappiah2) May 4, 2020

it is inhumane to compare a pandemic killing human beings to an electricity generation problem that was resolved by the same government.Its time to caution Dr. Bawumia not to be proud of cosmetic macro-economic data that fails to translate into economic wellbeing.

— Pascal Azah (@PascalAzah) May 4, 2020

And the response is a useless one like this. How can you compare an ongoing situation to a completed situation? Does that make sense. ongoing life issue compared to completed energy issue. Was bawumia asleep when the president said I can bring back the economy but not life?

— kofi G (@emmanuelkofiGl1) May 4, 2020

He's vodoo economist

— Gabby Tamakloe (@Kofishocker) May 4, 2020