A video featuring founder of Eastwood Anaba Ministries, Reverend Eastwood Anaba, has surfaced online, recounting how President Akufo-Addo facilitated the repatriation of stranded Ghanaians from Cuba during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
In the video, shared on TikTok, Reverend Eastwood Anaba narrates how he learned of the situation while hosting the Shepherd’s Summit at the National Theatre.
Upon hearing the news, he decided to seek the assistance of the president.
Despite skepticism from others that gaining the president’s attention would be challenging, Reverend Anaba proceeded to the Jubilee House, where he was warmly received and granted an audience with President Akufo-Addo.
Reverend Anaba recalled, “Somebody was sick in Cuba and went for treatment and had to come back home. This was just before COVID-19. I was doing Shepherd’s Summit at the National Theatre. I got up and said, ‘Let me go and meet President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo.'”
He continued, “People told me, ‘Hey, the President will not mind you,’ but I went to the Jubilee House. And when I went, they said, ‘Reverend, you are welcome.’ I said I was coming to see the big man; they asked me, ‘Do you have an appointment with him?’ I said, ‘No, it’s an emergency.’ They said, ‘Okay, we’ll tell him you are here.’ I sat down for a few minutes. Afterwards, they came and said, ‘He said you can come.’”
During their meeting, Reverend Anaba expressed his concerns to President Akufo-Addo, who attentively listened and assured him that the matter would be addressed.
As promised, within a few weeks, the individuals stranded in Cuba were safely repatriated to Ghana.
Reverend Anaba recounted, “I told him there is somebody I know, a Ghanaian who is in Cuba with other people. They are sick. They have to come home. He looked at me, wrote it down, and said, ‘Osofo Panyin, it shall be done.’ Within a few weeks, they had been brought back from Cuba to Ghana.”
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