Founder of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike has faulted government over its classification of some individuals as “vulnerable” in the wake of the COVID-19 without recourse to a thorough judgement to the individual plight of citizens in such a time.
He says not all head porters (kayayei), street hawkers and shoeshine boys who prior to the lockdown earned a living through non-formal activities can be classified as vulnerable because some of them used to make “unbelievable savings” on a daily basis.
According to him, unemployed graduates who had no means of earning a living prior to the lockdown could be the most vulnerable in the present circumstances and so must also be brought into the bracket by government.
He was commenting on the decision by government to serve some 400,000 individuals in the Greater Accra and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas with daily hot meals and dry food packages throughout the period of the partial lockdown in those areas, when he made these remarks in an interview in Kumasi-based Angel FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com on Tuesday.
- Expanding Africa’s vaccine production capacity key – Noguchi Director
- Dengue fever epidemic declared in Burkina Faso
- Frontiers earned over $87m while government got under $7m from COVID testing at KIA – Report
- I donated PPE worth over $1 million during COVID-19 pandemic – Ken Agyapong
- Ablakwa releases ‘inaccessible details’ of contract awarded to Frontiers for COVID test at the airport
- Read all related articles