News:
June 3, 2018
Second Deputy Speaker Alban Bagbin told Members of Parliament (MPs) on Friday 30th of November 2018 that he is clean with regards to his HIV status.
According to the Second Deputy Speaker at a committee meeting in Koforidua when he decided to lead by example he got tested; when he looked back there was no body behind him, later on some MPs came around to be tested for HIV.
“I can assure you we were not up to five, the others were so afraid that they resisted the temptation, but it is good we encourage people to do so, it is in their own interest”.
He told the House not to doubt that their Speaker is cleared, “I conduct HIV test annually, a comprehensive examination of myself; I have nothing to hide, I am clean”.
The Second Deputy Speaker made this remarks when the MP for Aowin Matthias Ntow posed a question if the second Deputy Speaker knows his HIV status.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com