The Minority Caucus in Parliament has issued a notice to demonstrate if the government fails to clear all of the containers of essential medical supplies that have been pent up at Tema Port.
Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the Ranking Member of Parliament’s Health Committee, told journalists during a news conference that the administration must remove the containers as promised.
The Minority’s news conference comes after Health Minister Bernard Okoe Boye guaranteed Ghanaians that the containers would be cleared within two weeks.
Mr. Akandoh stated that although the Minister’s pledge made no sense, he would be given the benefit of the doubt.
“Remember, we addressed you on the locked-up commodities and medications at the port. And as you know, we the members of parliament from the Minority side will not relent in our effort to push the government to clear these locked-up commodities and drugs until they are cleared from the port. That must be put on record and as we speak, not all the containers containing drugs and commodities at the port have been cleared.
“We are a group of reasonable people and so we have heard the plea by the minister responsible for help that we should give him two weeks.
“Although it doesn’t make any sense to plead for two weeks to clear commodities that have been at the port for one good year, we have heard him but we are sending a clear signal and warning that within his own two weeks, all, and the emphasis is all, all the containers, containing these drugs should be cleared from the port. Not some, as they have been doing.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
