Nana Ofori Owusu, Chairman for the Progressive People’s Party is questioning the functionality of some governmental institutions like the Ministry of Information and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the battle over COVID-19.
These institutions according to him are rather interested in the campaigns of political parties and have relaxed in educating the public to continue in the fight against the corona virus.
He feared a second wave of the virus could happen and therefore said that President Nana Akuffo Addo has failed abysmally in the COVID-19 fight.
According to the PPP chairman who was speaking on Peace FM’s ”Kokrokoo”;
”What has NCCE done for COVID-19? What is the Ministry of Information continuously doing for COVID-19 on the grounds?
”What is the strategy? What is the plan? How are we going to ensure that the good citizens of Ghana continuously are reminded about this? Must it be the President’s duty everyday? The men of the President, what is their use? The men who follow the President, what is their use? The over 100 plus men, what is their use?”
”They are all concentrating on politicking. So, they have forgotten about their responsibilities to you and me as citizens because they’re all busy for survival. So, they have thrown everything out of the way, out of the door”,
”You’re not testing. You’re not aggressively pushing data. You’re not aggressively doing any of those things. Then, you glorify yourself in deficiency by telling us the number is this and this. Because of your inability to have carried out certain tests and functions, you’re glorifying yourself in deficiency. Mediocre! Our numbers are low; your numbers are low because you’re not doing any testing. Why won’t your numbers be low when you’re not doing any testing?”
”Change behaviour requires time and consistency”, He added.
