President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has justified why 96 out of the 275 ambulances are currently parked at the State House.
The issue of these parked ambulances emerged after the Minority side on Parliament’s Health Committee gave government the ultimatum to immediately release the aambulances or risk further public agitations. Others joined in the campaign indicating that there is no reason for the ambulances to be parked while people are dying.
The Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson under whose purview the distribution lies in an interview on Neat FM said the assertion that failure to deliver the ambulances to the constituencies could increase the deaths of unfortunate Ghanaians, is neither here nor there, since “people started dying a long time ago”; a statement many have described as 'insensitive'.
On Friday, a journalist asked the President why the ambulances were parked during this year's Encounter with the mediia series.
In response, President Akufo-Addo thus disclosed that not to be accused of being bias, he has directed that by the first week of January, 2020, the Ambulances must been delivered to every constituency as promised.
"The Minister for Special Development Initiative told me some of the ambulances were in and asked if she should distribute them and I said NO; she shouldn't. She should wait for the others to come in so that we can distribute all at the same time...Fortunately for us all of them will be in by the end of this month and on the 6th of January, I will commission them and the distribution will take place simultaneously and nobody will accuse me of favoritism, and so on. There is no justification on they being parked but if i was to send it here and not here i think you know the kind of discourse that will come," he stated.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Mr. President, Please I beg to differ. Ghanaians lives should not be sacrificed on the platform of political criticisms. In any case with 96 ambulances we can still distribute to all regions on balance including nonpolitical justifications but equality and urgent need requirements. I believe bold decisions should be taken if the interest of the people is at the centre of our governance. The country will not make any progress if we continue like this. No leader can equally satisfy every region at the same time or within a period of his reign but at least discerning people we see reasoning in your actions when fairness and integrity is upheld. It is true that people will continue to pass on but the timely distribution of these ambulances could have saved a person or two.
NDC TROTRO AMBULANCE NEVER GOT DISTRIBUTED. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH THE PREZ, HE WILL MAKE A FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF THE AMBULANCE. IF THE FIRST BATCH IS DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT VOLTA REGION THEY WOULD BE LED BY ABLAKWA TO COMPLAIN FOR BEING LEFT OUT. AND SO WOULD UPPER WEST OR ANY OTHER REGION WOULD CLAIM.IT IS NOT WRONG TO START DISTRIBUTION WITH THE FIRST BATCH BUT IT IS FULL OF WISDOM TO DO ALL TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME. INDEED WE CAN ALL CLAIM TO CHALLENGE ANY CONSTITUENCY WHO MISUSES THEIRS BY COMPARISON TO OTHERS IF THEY ALL GET THEM AT THE SAME TIME.
You see how we have allowed our country to be divided on party lines and not allowed good thinking and judgment to guide us. Imagine what some people from different part of the country will say just to score cheap political point if one part gets more than the other. If Ashanti region get 6 and volta gets 5. There will be problem. If cape coast receives 6 and northern receives 3 the north will complain. In my view I will side with the president. All should get in and the distribution will be done at the same time