National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Juaboso Constituency, Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has described the refusal of the Akufo-Addo led government to distribute the procured ambulances parked at Parliament House as a sign of "gross disrespect".
According to the Ranking Member on the Committee of Health in Parliament, the responses offered by government as to why the ambulances have still not been distributed to the various constituencies does not make sense.
“ . . We came out to complain about the parked ambulances at the forecourt of Parliament which were procured with taxpayers’ money . . . we thought that if this government has any respect and knows that we are all stakeholders in governance, they would have listened to our complaints and distributed the ambulances to the various constituencies,” he chided.
When the issue of the parked ambulances at the forecourt of Parliament was raised by the Minority in Parliament, the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson explained that the training of paramedics and personnel had caused the delay.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Hon. Mintah Akandoh hinted that the third strategy will be massive than the previous press conference held by the Minority.
"From the time we did our press conference up to this time, the responses we have received don’t make sense to us. We are still on our stance that the government should distribute the ambulances to the various constituencies. From this time, we have to take another strategy; we have used two strategies but the government has not complied with them and so we are planning the third one,” he revealed.
". . until the government adheres to our demand to distribute the ambulances to the various constituencies, we will not relax. We want the government to distribute them to save lives in the country,” he insisted.
'First Batch of 275 Ambulances in Ghana'
In September 2019, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the arrival of the first batch of ambulances for all 275 constituencies in the country.
96 out of the 275 ambulances are currently parked at the State House awaiting distribution.
The arrival of these ambulances form part of the fulfillment of a promise made by the President and the NPP Government in the build-up to the 2016 general elections.
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Akando, when are you going to ask Mahama to distribute the 5.5 million dollar ambulances imported into the country during the era of the hopeless administration led by Mahama. No wonder, he appointed a character like you as a minister.
NDC AND THEIR AKANDO TO SH-UT UP, IN THEY OWN GOVERNANCE, DID YOU NDC PURCHASE ANY PROPER AMBULANCE, ALL THESE Ambulances needs tracking to track them at the end of the day.
there is no logic having 307 ambulances and people die in Ghana. we have 275 constituencies, so sharing/distribution is easy, abi? why should we wait, allow citizens to die before sharing the ambulances, makes no sense.
krakye ma yen asowa nko edzidzi ai. stop the unnecessary noise and allow the working government to do its work. why are you seekibg for some form of popularity? why the plenty attention seeking appearances lately?
You play on the sentiments of Ghanaians.lt is more insulting.Only the gullible will fall for Akando and NDC noise!
Hon you can go to hell, the proper things needs to be done. NPP don't do things like the NDC does. where are the ambulance the NDC bought.
NDC where is the ambulance you imported. Have you distributed them. why are your (NDC) ambulance still sitting.
Please Honorable MP Akando I employ that you exercise maximum patience to do things in their proper way. Because you have display much ignorance in the whole set up,and I wonder who put you on the committee. Lets put things in place in other to monitor them.
I put the blame on Ghanaian journalist.Nobody has been able to question this good for nothing son of concert man Akandoh of KK's No.2 fame,the ambulances imported by NDC government, mini buses.You have no shame spending over $200 million of taxpayers money to import mini buses as ambulance, this will happen in an NDC era.
opposition is very painful