Hon. Jumah said the government has been reckless and irresponsible in terms of policy direction. According to him, instead of providing the urban assemblies with enough support in the area of sanitation, the President is declaring Red Alerts and chasing phantoms.
Maxwell Kofi Jumah becomes the second NPP member after MP for Evalue Gwira, Hon. Catherine Afeku, blamed the Mills administration over the prevailing cholera outbreak that has killed over sixty one (61) people in Ghana.
According to her, Government’s broken promise on keeping Ghana clean has created a fertile ground for the outbreak of the disease which is killing innocent Ghanaians.
The Ghana Health Service has confirmed that over 4,000 cholera cases with 61 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of the epidemic in the latter part of 2010. In an interview with Citi News, Hon. Kofi Jumah said President Mills must declare a red alert on the poor state of sanitation in Ghana especially in urban areas. “We (NPP)managed to control the situation as bad as it is through companies like the Zoomlion and to some extent the District Assemblies. But for the past two years there has been a trend and that trend has been a trend of neglect, mismanagement and misdirected policies by this government. This is the root cause of Cholera epidemic in this country. Let us stop with symptoms and go down to the root cause which is poor sanitation in our urban areas. It is very clear that this government is not committed to this”.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is urging its members to go beyond treating people diagnosed with cholera and admonish them to be hygiene conscious.
The association said the cholera epidemic is fast spreading to various parts of the country, a situation that requires serious attention.
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