Dear Nana Addo,

Am not a fan of politics but I admired your initial leadership skills exhibited to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

Mr President, in fact, I applauded your measures to also lessen the financial burden on your citizens by absolutely absorbing utility tariffs. It was then I realised that God reserved your presidency for this chaotic 2020. Majority of Ghanaians are proud of you being our president in these terrible times and may God bless you with more years, strength, wisdom, knowledge and understanding so you can rule for a second term.

I don’t want to to mention your social intervention programs because they are numerous and know no political colour.

But Mr President as a journalist, I was merely educating people to strictly observe safety protocols as outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and our own reliable Ghana Health Service until the reality dawn on me when I was told l have tested positive for the virus.

Before I voluntarily call for my sample to be taken, I have had a life-threatening sickness that gave me sleepless nights, difficulty in breathing, loss of smell and taste, dry coughing serious headache with my whole body burning. In summary, I went through hell in just one month.

After treating this all by myself for almost a month, I was called one Friday to be told I have tested positive for the virus, three bad weeks after my samples were taken.

In in a nutshell my able and devoted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, I think and believe that many people have been unknowingly infected and are going through hell trying to treat it all by themselves because they don’t even know the disease they are treating but hoping to recover.

Per my observation Mr President, the easing of restrictions may lead us into a state where many sick people may be reporting to our health facilities. Before then they might have unknowingly infected many people including our frontline health workers whose contacts can hardly be recalled and traced.

My hardworking Nana Akufo-Addo, whom I wish could be my father, please hasten slowly on the easing of restrictions on social gathering.

This is the time when your governance truly defines the late president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s quote “The Blackman is capable of managing his own affairs.”

Thank you.