MP for Tamale North, Alhassan
Sayibu Suhuyini, is challenging the minister-designate for Health, Kwaku
Agyeman Manu, on his denial that he did not mean in plain terms that he was
tired of executing his duties as minister in charge of health due to the
ravages caused by the coronavirus.
He said that based on past
instances when the minister-designate had presented falsehood, he doubted his
claims that he was misquoted and as such, he was tendering in the available evidence
he had on exactly what Agyeman Manu said in his native Bono language.
Suhuyini, therefore, challenged
the nominee to eschew truthfulness in his assertions.
“Public officials have a duty to
be candid and also to be honest. The nominee is before us and has in Bono, told
this honourable Committee what he said. Mr. Chairman, I have what the
honourable nominee said on tape. I have it on pen drive and what the honourable
nominee claims he said, as repeated on this is not true and Mr. Chairman, with
your permission, I’d like us to playback and compare what is on tape and what
he claimed he said at the place.
“This is important because the
honourable nominee is putting on record again to have said that there was no
generator at the University of Ghana Medical Center. It turned out not to be
true. The honourable member is on record to have claimed not have coronavirus
at the time he had it and it turned out not to be true.
However, the chairman of the
Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu refused the request, stating that the Tamale North
must be guided by the procedures that are involved with tendering anything that
must be played during their sittings.
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