Friday, 17th September, 2021

DAILY ANALYST
Friday, 17th September, 2021 Page 3
Story: Prosper Kwake
Selassy Agbitor
ECOWAS Chairman,
President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
has called on leaders
attending the Extraordinary
Summit on the political
situations in the Republics of
Guinea and Mali to proffer durable
solutions to those crisis.
Opening the meeting in Accra
yesterday, Mr Akufo-Addo, who
is also the President of Ghana,
said the positive response to the
meeting to further deliberate on
events in those two countries
was “a clear manifestation of the
solidarity and commitment of
the ECOWAS community to the
democracy, peace, prosperity and
unity of the region.”
He recounted the coup of 5th
September, 2021 in Guinea which
saw the government of President
Alpha Conde toppled, and measures
taken so far in the interim,
including the condemnation
of the coup, the suspension of
Guinea from the regional forum,
and demand for the release of
the detained Conde, as well as
the establishment of a high level
ECOWAS mission to Guinea to
assess the situation and report
back to the regional authorities.
“I count on you, Excellences,
to help proffer durable solutions
to the crisis and I’m confident
that as in the past, we will rise to
the occasion.
“The delegation went to
Guinea on Friday, the 10th of September,
met the military leaders
and saw President Alpha Conde
at his place of detention. They
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have made a report to us, which
will be the basis of our deliberations
at this emergency summit
on Guinea. We will receive also
a report from the mediator of
the Malian crisis, His Excellency
Goodluck Jonathan, the former
President of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, on developments in
Mali.
“We are required to take informed
decisions on these matters.
I count on you, Excellences,
to help proffer durable solutions
to the crisis and I’m confident
that as in the past, we will rise to
the occasion.”
The soldiers who staged
the Guinea coup, led by Colonel
Mamady Doumbouya, cite
undemocratic practices, hopelessness,
non-accountability and
mounting unemployment as
justification for the coup.
Similarly, soldiers in Mali
led by Colonel Assimi Goïta and
Colonel-Major Ismaël Wagué
capitalised on political unrests
following disputed parliamentary
elections results in March and
April to oust President Ibrahim
Boubacar Keïta, and Prime Minister
Boubou Cissé. ECOWAS once
again condemned the coup and
demanded the reinstallation of
President Keïta.
Govt can’t be forced!
Story: George Obeng
A
member of the Justice
Koomson Committee
that probed
the Ejura disturbances,
Dr Vladimir
Antwi-Danso, has stated that it
is unfair to ask the committee to
pile pressure on the government
to publish the Ejura report.
Speaking to the media, Dr
Antwi Danso said the committee
is done with its work, hence
the onus now lies on the government
to make the report public.
“Our work ended with the
submission of our findings to
the government, and it ends
there. I will still insist that it is
not our duty to demand the publication
of the report. Legally, we
don’t have the right… It is also
not fair,” he said.
The three-member committee
was constituted by the
Interior Minister, Ambros Dery,
at the behest of President Nana
Akufo-Addo, and tasked to investigate
the circumstances that
led to the death of social activist,
Kaaka and the ensuing unrest
in Ejura.
The committee held public
hearings for close to two weeks
and subsequently submitted its
report to Mr. Dery over a month
ago.
Ghanaians have in the past
few weeks been demanding the
publication of the report.
The Minister of Information,
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, had
earlier said the findings of the
committee will be made public
by the end of this week.
“The President has instructed
that we publish the report so
perhaps before the end of this
week or next week, we will be
publishing the report in full
and at the same time also announcing
the implementation
measures that come along with
that publication,” the Minister
said on Point Blank on Eyewitness
News.
Mr. Nkrumah also indicated
that the findings were subsequently
handed over to the
Attorney General for advice.
“The President asked the
Attorney General to look at it
and give advice on a number
of things, which will become
clearer when implementation
starts. The Attorney General
has completed the study of the
committee’s report.”
Moderna vaccine rollout begins next week —GHS
Story: Serge Kojo
Apaloo
The Ghana Health
Service (GHS) will
from next week start
administering the
1.2 million Moderna
COVID-19 vaccines it received
from the United States (US)
government.
According to the GHS,
training of its personnel on
the use of the vaccine was
expected to be completed this
week across all 16 regions of
the country.
The Programme’s Manager
for the Expanded Programme
on Immunisation at the GHS,
Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano,
in a Citi News interview
monitored by DAILY Analyst
disclosed that the next phase
of the vaccination will cover
all persons 18 years and above.
He added that a date for the
commencement of the exercise
will be announced later
next week.
He explained that this
phase will include the deployment
of other available
vaccines.
“We are holding training
reps on the vaccine. We are
also in discussion on the date
for the commencement of the
vaccination exercise. Once
a date is chosen, it will be
communicated to the public.
Hopefully, getting to the latter
part of next week, we should
be able to continue our vaccination
exercise.”
“We will do all the vaccines
we have available. So we have
taken stock of what we have
done so far and what we need
to do going forward.”
A few weeks ago, Ghana
took delivery of some 249,000
doses of AstraZeneca vaccines
from the UK government to
support its vaccination drive.
Despite a slow start to the
vaccine rollout, the government
remains committed to
vaccinating 20 million Ghanaians
by the end of 2021.
Ghana has so far has secured
over 3.2 million vaccines.
The President, Nana
Akufo-Addo, earlier in July 2021,
directed the Interior Ministry to
conduct a public inquiry following
the killing of two people and
Dr. Vladimir Antwi Danso
the injuring of four others by
soldiers during a protest against
the killing of a social activist,
Ibrahim Muhammed, popularly
known as Kaaka Macho.