“I walk freely without arrest or intimidation despite NDC claims in opposition” – Agyemang Manu brags

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Former Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu

Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the former Health Minister, has bragged about how he is able to walk freely without arrest or intimidation.

According to Kwaku Agyemang Manu, despite the NDC’s claims in opposition, he walks free without arrest or intimidation.

The former Health Minister is quoted by a Metro TV news card to have said, “I walk freely without arrest or intimidation despite NDC claims in Opposition”.

Some Ghanaians on X reacting to the news stated, “I blame my party. This same person during Covid made some purchases that till date I don’t understand, but has gone to buy audacity from Makola so he is spewing jazz”.

“Many young people and even elderly people follow these politicians blindly and swallow everything they http://say.You will be deceived because it is all about extreme partisanship, lies and propaganda to win power. After the power, nothing good happens.” Let’s do our own research”, a netizen added.

“Some of you are lucky, @dr_ayine and @JusticeSremSai and co are too weak to act. Some of us won’t use the democratic way because we owe none of you any favours. I will put you in jail without the law, and you’ll cough up every stolen money, and we will counter-inject you with the water you purchased as a vaccine during the COVID period. Some of us are more than the word wicked when it comes to dealing with criminals. Continue talking trash, but soon”, an X user added.

It will be recalled that the Ministry of Health, under the leadership of Kwaku Agyemang-Manu in 2020, paid UNICEF/AVAT over 120 million dollars for Coronavirus vaccines but failed to receive all vaccines from the supplier.

“Ministry of Health, on behalf of the Government of Ghana, paid an amount of US$120,192,379.80 to UNICEF/AVAT for the supply of vaccines. However, 5,109,600.00 doses of vaccines valued at US$38,322,000.00 were supplied to the National Cold Room, leaving a difference of US$81,870,379.80 with UNICEF/AVAT,” the 2022 Auditor General’s report stated.

“This led to public agitation, with critics demanding the retrieval of the over US$80 million at UNICEF/AVAT and also calling for heads to roll.

The report also noted that records on COVID-19 funds at the Ministry of Finance, Controller and Accountant-General and Ministry of Health indicated that the Ministry of Finance mobilised a total amount of GH¢19,112,318,205.12 in 2020 to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The records showed that an amount of GH¢1,978,551,137.46 was mobilised in 2021 and GH¢753,319,842.66 (up to June 2022) to finance the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme and the implementation of the Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan.

In all, a total amount of GH¢21,844,189,185.24 was mobilised to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic”, reports added.

Also, Kwaku Agyemang Manu was accused of allowing Frontier Health Service Limited to operate without a licence during COVID-19.

“Kwaku Agyemang Manu, appearing before the appointment committee in 2021, explained the decision to allow Frontier Health Service Limited to start testing for COVID-19 at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) before eventually being licensed.

During his vetting, Agyemang Manu admitted to a question posed by North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa that the company was allowed to start operating when it had not been granted a permit.

The North Tongu MP said the company started operating on September 1, 2020, but was licensed on November 3, the same year, after it had already commenced operations”.

In answering, the Health Minister-designate at the time explained: “In the pandemic, we had a phrase we were using. We said that we were not in normal times.

“There were certain things that we had to do and try to rectify as we go forward because of the urgency of the situation.”

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