Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the nation can’t be fooled into believing that the Covid-19 team put together by the opposition National Democratic Congress was to fight a national cause and not to do pursue a political agenda.
He observed that the NDC has even been engaging in “subtle jubilation” when Ghana’s case count goes up, affording them the opportunity to point to the public that the government has failed.
Mr. Oppong Nkrumah told Stephen Anti, sit-in host of TV3’s The Key Points, Saturday, May 23, that the NDC’s Covid-19 team had regularly undermined government’s efforts.
He noted that Ghana is the only country in the world with the opposition party having its own Covid-19 response team alongside that of the state.
“It is now becoming clear that it was just a political exercise. Because it was an exercise to give them the platform to be taking hotshots at the state’s efforts and to be regularly attempting to undermine or critique or question what the state was doing even including the data that the scientists are putting out.”
He for instance cited the former president John Mahama’s facebook live sessions, which he said is consistently used to shift the nation’s attention from substantive issue to delve into political banter.
“So let’s not be fooled anywhere, it was an attempt to politicize the matter, it drew out political responses from our side,” he stated.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah also suggested that it was apt for Vice President Dr. Bawumia to compare how the government is handling the coronavirus pandemic to the erratic power supply (dumsor) the country experienced under the Mahama-led government.
“The vice president was justified in coming out with a strong checkmate,” he asserted.
He would not agree that President Akufo-Addo has himself been engaging in some level of politics in his regular address to the nation. “The president will do his politics in due time,” he said, insisting, Mr. Akufo-Addo is “not dabbling in partisan politics at this time”.
Meanwhile, the minister admitted that the NDC Covid-19 team submitted “materials” on the deadly pandemic that were forwarded to the government response team. This, he said, to reject concerns that the government team has not been engaging other interest groups, noting that the concern is “blatant untruth”.
Source: 3news.com
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You dont need to talk
Thank God we have a responsible and decent opposition unlike the anti-Ghana npp rebels who were engaging in kume preko, bomb throwing, impotation of terrorists and burning down of markets and government offices to destabilize the nation.
Teddy, which shine? Everyone knows the situation of PPEs in the world. Feeding 400,000 was of good intention, but what happened? Was politicized and government in the right sense withdrew. You think if Ghana was not doing WHO would have look what the government was doing right? We don’t need leaders who will take advantage of us in our times of need. ASKER bribery during dumsor, is just an example. In their desire to chop money, they turn Ghana into a West African Centre when the Ebola disease had not even touch our shores. God saved us. Ask them what they did with the Ebola money.
But my friend the Honourable Minister, you and your Party NPP have already *fulled" yourselves and displayed your gross incompetent in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. Your govt couldn't cater for the 400,000 people you targeted to feed. You have not been able to supply adequate PPEs to all the frontline health workers. Even common protective kits like gloves, facemasks and sanitizers are procured by the doctors and nurses themselves. You performed so abysmally that the little NDC did took the credit and the shine away from you. Everything you touch surprisingly turns fiasco- something ghanaians do not know why and are looking for answers. Maybe only you can explain. Time Will Soon Tell.