Communications Minister Ursula Owusu Ekufful has rubbished calls for Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah to be prosecuted for endangering the lives of his constituents by visiting registration centers after testing positive for Covid-19.
The Deputy Minister has been compelled to resign as a result.
But many including general secretary for the opposition NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and pressure group OccupyGhana have asked for Mr. Ahenkorah to be prosecuted.
However, speaking to Kasapa News, Ursula Owusu who’s also Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West argued there is no legal basis for such demands
According to her, the Deputy Minister who’ also MP for Tema West has lost his job and that is punishment enough.
“Prosecution for what? unless you can show that an individual contracted the virus by coming into contact with him because he went out on the monitoring. It will be difficult to establish a case for spreading COVID-19 unwillingly. It is easy to say but will you have the evidence to prosecute. I think that if it is punishment we want, he has laid down his position as deputy Minister to take responsibility for it. You don’t beat a dead horse, what else would you achieve by his prosecution. If he had insisted that he hadn’t done anything wrong and so he was still going to defend his action then the call for further sanction to be applied would be in order.”
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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@Ben I hope you have never cheated on your partner if you only you have ever had or have one. I can't get it why some people especially some men can't stand or appreciate strong highly educated women. There are more single parents in Ghana who have "magically" brought up their children who have become successful people in our society. Are they prostitutes? Come On Ben, grow up.
When God want to kill you he first make you mad. Ursula you are adding insult to injury. Already mass majority of Ghanaians are so angry with the npp as a government for their utter arrogance so don't inflame more passions. That someone has intentionally gone round potentially infected so many Ghanaians around his constituency and people are calling for his prosecution you are also coming to show more arrogance. New voter registration will not save you and your nana addo. You said the nation belong to you, Ghanaians say we live to see. Gyantranyi!