Pressure Group OccupyGhana is calling for the immediate prosecution of resigned deputy Trade and Industries minister Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah for breaching the safety protocols and also exposing the general public to COVID-19.
Despite being COIVD-19 positive, Mr Ahenkorah earlier this week toured some registration centres to see how the process was going when the Electoral Commission began registering Ghanaians for a new voter ID card ahead of the upcoming elections in December.
“I decided to see how some of the centres were just operating. So, I stepped out into town a bit. It didn’t mean I couldn’t go out. My test results had shown I was positive a week ago and after one week, my doctors said I could step out,” he told Asempa FM in Accra.
“They [doctors] said I could go out, except that I needed to wear my mask and observe social distancing,” the lawmaker added.
He said he was “very careful” and “very mature about it”.
In a statement, OG said on Friday, 3 July 2020, that it “joins countless Ghanaians in registering our chagrin and disappointment with the behaviour and actions of Deputy Trade and Industry Minister, Mr Carlos Ahenkorah, MP. He has admitted that after testing positive for COVID-19, and before obtaining a subsequent negative test, he recklessly and callously put himself in the public space, visiting registration centres in the Tema West Constituency.”
The pressure group said: “By this, he put his fellow citizens at such high risk of contracting the coronavirus disease. As a minister of state of a government that is battling hard against this pandemic, he has shown a remarkable lack of good sense on the social and physical distancing that is required by law, on the pain of criminal prosecution.”
Also, “his actions show gross disrespect to the pronouncements of the President concerning keeping the populace safe, and his behaviour makes a mockery of any enactments government has made in the fight against the coronavirus.”
“the police to investigate his actions, and if found to have breached the law, to prosecute him. We also call on the New Patriotic Party to withdraw him as their candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections.”
The group further urged “government and the Electoral Commission to ensure that participants in the ongoing voters’ registration fully comply with the COVID-19 security, health, safety, and personal hygiene protocols.”
The MP on Friday 3rd June, 2020, reigned from his post with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo accepting his resignation.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
