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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, said he finds the free supply of COVID-19 vaccines to Ghana troubling.
Declaring his dissatisfaction with the free deployment of the COVID-19 vaccines to the country, the maverick NPP lawmaker said he was prepared to fund Ghana’s purchase of the vaccine to reduce the country’s over-dependence on aid.
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“I’m not bragging, but I am prepared to give Akufo-Addo one million dollars to procure the vaccines,” he stated on his Net 2 television on Wednesday.
“I don’t like the idea of always going to the developed countries to beg for support as though we cannot do anything for ourselves,” he added.
Ghana on February 22, 2021, took delivery of 600,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine under the United Nation-led COVAX facility.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is licensed to the Serum Institute of India (AZ/SII).
Three hundred thousand people have so far been vaccinated from the deadly virus since the commencement of mass vaccination on March 2, 2021.
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Ghana is expected to receive an additional two million of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility by the end of May this year, boosting the government’s quest to vaccinate about 20 million Ghanaians.
Source: Ghanaarticles.com
