The Executive Director for the African Centre for Health Policy Research and Analysis, Dr. Thomas Anaba has stated the COVID-19 fumigation of markets, faculties and public establishments via way of means of Zoomlion Ghana Limited become a massive loss to the usa.
He alleged that the chemical used didn’t serve its motive.
Dr. Anaba made the allegation in the course of his speech on the TEIN induction rite of degree one hundred college students of Gbewa College of Education withinside the Upper East Region on Saturday, July 17, 2022.
He stated, “You remembered they stated they had been dispensing PPEs to school. We traced and found out that many faculties didn’t get PPEs in the meantime hundreds of thousands had been spent on PPEs. The maximum thrilling thing, I see become how they collaborated with personal establishments to dupe Ghana, is the fumigation of churches, markets, faculties and public establishments wherein Zoomlion Ghana Limited claimed they have got fumigated Ghana and gathered Ghc 81million after they knew very that the fumigation they had been doing had no impact due to the fact the chemical they had been the usage of become now no longer going to serve the motive they had been used for. So, that become Ghc81million loss."
He added, “COVID-19 got here and anyone had been involved how the authorities ought to get cash to resolve the covid-19 problem. Because, due to the fact that 2019 our financial system commenced sliding down. But fortuitously for Ghana, the authorities become even capable of enhance extra money than what we predicted to elevate to control COVID-19. And in case you additionally test our price range and our sales generation, it's far best in 2020 that we slide down approximately Ghc5billion however, the relaxation of the years, we meet our goal or even handed and that suggests that the authorities had sufficient cash to control covid-19 or even had excess”.
He cited that authorities updated has didn't nicely account to Ghanaians the expenditure on covid-19.
Dr. Anaba stated, “But right here we're in case you need to test what authorities used the monies for. After the Finance Minister got here to bills for it, we genuinely used 1/2 of of the monies. The relaxation he in no way informed us wherein it went into. From the very starting of control of COVID-19, a number of us have severe troubles with how monies had been been expended.
“We complained, first approximately information dissemination. They left the whole lot to Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in Accra, media homes had been left out, or even the National Commission for Civic Education become left out. Some people need to pop out and speak vigorously earlier than authorities commenced giving them cash. They in no way contain nearby radio stations in an effort to translate all of the statistics into nearby languages. We additionally noticed what appear in the course of the lockdown, they organized a meals handout for human beings genuinely throwing it with out accountability. We complained that that become now no longer going to be accountable, after that, they gave us very massive figures approximately what they spent.
He continued, “Meanwhile, we noticed benevolent establishments and humans donating objects in a completely orderly manner, telling human beings how a whole lot they have got donated to establishments, and that one couldn't be executed via way of means of the authorities. It got here to quarantine, wherein establishments centers that had been used for quarantine, whilst you hint the background, they had been genuinely centers owned via way of means of NPP apparatchik. And you had been fake to pay massive sums of monies rather than authorities facilitating it and instead making the monies for us to cushion Ghana, they had been instead making human beings of their celebration make benefits, make do with the earning from COVID-19 and leaving Ghana. If you study the sales we ought to have generated more, even Kotoka global airport, we ought to have made a number of cash there, and don't forget the airport become constructed with a loan. Instead of letting the COVID-19 take a look at be for the airport, they instead gave it to a personal frame that made hundreds of thousands of greenbacks and took it away whiles the authorities become suffering for cash to pay for the development of the airport. This suggests the authorities wasn’t clever sufficient.
The former Director General of the Ridge Hospital below the Mahama management burdened that during spite of all of the economic help Ghana acquired from the World Bank etc, the usa spent little on covid-19 vaccine procurement.
“When you return back to buy of vaccines, Ghana authorities has now no longer spent any a whole lot cash in buying vaccine from Ghana’s authorities pocket. We were given genuinely the whole lot thru donations. The best vaccines we bought with our cash become the only deviled with corruption wherein a Finance Minister and the Health Minister went beforehand and paid cash for vaccines we even didn’t have and that absolutely delivered approximately the brouhaha withinside the system.
“They determined to insure all fitness the front liners, I am a the front liner, many personal centers had been the front liners however they in no way had any coverage however the worst of it's far that every one people who had been insured with coverage had been insured with Enterprise Insurance, the identical Finance Minister’s personal employer this suggests how they labored to dupe this usa of resources”.
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