Coronavirus: Stay In China, We’ll Send You “Shito, Gari And Kenkey – Gov’t To Stranded Ghanaian Students

The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has announced that the government is ever ready to shiploads of Ghanaian staple foods like “shito, gari and kenkey that can last over 2 weeks without going bad”, to the over 300 Ghanaian students who have been trapped in the Chinese province of Wuhan after the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease.

The decision of the government comes after the advice by the Ghana Health Service to the Health Ministry that shipping stranded students into the country “is not an option for now”, despite calls by the students through the China chapter of the National Union of Ghana Students for government to evacuate them from China.

Speaking in an interview on Okay FM, Mr Agyemang Manu said, “ Ayorkor (Foreign Affairs Minister) was angry that, when she sent people to buy the shito, they came back to say one bottle costs GHC 80, so she won’t buy that shito, but would personally go to market to buy some at a cheaper price; so we are thinking of them; day by day we are talking with them”.