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July 15, 2020
Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Ursula Owusu-Ekufful has said for the country to fight against the spread of coronavirus its best for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to politicize issues to do with the virus.
According to her, Carlos Ahenkorh cannot be prosecuted as the General Secretary of the NDC Aseidu Nkertia is calling for unless one can show he had the virus and infected people during his monitoring of the voter registration exercise.
“It would be difficult to establish that, it is say but would you have the evidence to prosecute if its punishment we want the former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry has laid down his position do we want to beat a dead horse what would we achieve by his prosecution?”
Again the coronavirus is not bias for one to put a blood on his or her door step like in the bible story, where the virus would pass over NDC people and infect NPP supporters, “we should be careful it is simple to obey the protocol”.
“I would urge the largest opposition party to work with government to ensure that we all observe the protocols and expose those who do not respect the protocols do the right thing, instead of pointing fingers and hoping to score political points”.
And gave an example of driving along the street of Accra where some Ghanaians put their facemask on their chin and others holding their facemask without putting it on, and added that she signals them to mask up.
“Let us all take it upon ourselves to educate people on the importance of the facemask, I am sorry for what has happened to Carlos it can happen to anybody, again I had a problem with the media at the recent primaries held in Dome/Kwabenya were social distance is not observe whiles interviewing you crowd yourselves”.
Mrs Ekufful reiterated that the former Deputy Ministers of Trade and Industry should be applauded for taking personal responsibility of his action as hardly would a person in position accept when they go wrong.
She further gave an example of herself when her husband returned from the UK because the virus was high there she demanded that he goes into mandatory quarantine and isolate himself from the rest of the family.
Ones you know you have the virus it is imperative that you isolate and added that if one does not do that he or she might unknowing spread the disease so one needs to take the necessary precautions.
“Unfortunately at the heat of the moment Carlos felt compelled to monitor the ongoing registration exercise despite the fact that he said he took all the necessary pre-cautions, it was incumbent on him to isolate whiles fighting the virus. My heart goes out for him, he is an excellent material in the Ministry”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com