‘We will bring You Kenkey and Shito’-Minister tells abandoned Ghanaian Students In China  

The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has said, the Ghanaian government response to concerns of stranded Ghanaian students in the coronavirus Covid-19 infested Wuhan in China would be to load up Kenkey and hot sauce “Shito” to them.
There are over 300 Ghanaian students caught at the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus amidst reports of government abandoning them to their fate. It is unclear how much succour the Kenkey and Shito will bring to these desperate students.
Mr Agyemang Manu, says the decision to fly the food items to the students was arrived “at a meeting last week Thursday, because they (the students) are complaining that they are safe where they are, only that they are running out of stock of food, so we should send them food…they have lost appetite for Chinese foods.”

Speaking in an interview on Okay FM last Friday, 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”.

The minister was responding to the MP for Juaboso and Ranking Member of the Health Committee of Parliament, Kwabena Minta Akandoh who had earlier said on the show that, “the decision of the government not to evacuate the students from China defied common sense”.
Even though several countries with students in Wuhan are evacuating their citizens to containment centres, the Ghana Health Service and the Health Ministry have categorically stated that evacuating the scared Ghanaian students “is not an option for now”.
The students reportedly children of ruling party members have made several pleas for evacuation, including through the China chapter of the National Union of Ghana Students for government to evacuate them so they can escape being infected or dying from the Covid-19 which has reportedly infected over 60,000 people so far and have killed nearly 2000 as at the last count.