Emirates’ ban on travels to some African countries discriminatory – Ablakwa

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described moves by Emirates to ban travels to some selected African countries as discriminatory.

Emirates has banned travels to some selected African countries including Ghana, Angola, Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ethiopia.

This ban was necessitated by the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in those countries.

But reacting to the ban, Okudzeto Ablakwa indicated that it’s discriminatory considering the number of case count in some European countries.

To him, if Emirates is not placing a ban to those countries, it is worrying that a ban will be placed on some African countries that has low numbers comparatively.

Read His Fill Statement Below

Emirates’ travel ban imposed on selected African countries including Ghana, effective today 28th December, 2021 is by a mile the most discriminatory, offensive, senseless and retrogressive step.

Ghana, Angola, Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ethiopia do not have an active case count and hospitalization anywhere near that of France, UK, Italy, USA and India whose citizens are all allowed, rightly so if I may add, to still travel to and transit through Dubai.

The other nauseating irony is that daily active cases in the UAE have now crossed 1,800, far higher than Ghana’s 1,264 new cases, and yet UAE citizens can travel to Ghana whereas Ghanaians cannot travel to the UAE.

I urge African Presidents and the African Union to immediately denounce this shameless discriminatory policy and to proceed by giving UAE authorities an ultimatum to reverse this backward ban, failing which I strongly expect African countries to reciprocate in good measure, and in addition withdraw en masse from the ongoing Dubai Expo which closes on March 31, 2022.

I should hope President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana would also in protest reconsider his plans to lead a Ghanaian delegation to the Dubai Expo on March 8, 2022.

African nations cannot continue to be soft targets in these dark schemes that perpetuate high-level international racism.

All countries should listen to the WHO which has long warned that travel bans do not work and that they are indeed counterproductive. Global challenges demand global solutions, not blinded discriminatory knee jerk reactions.

Source: MyNewsGh.com/ 2021

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