{"id":1195364,"date":"2022-08-31T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/this-is-a-difficult-question-health-minister-states-under-cross-examination\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:42:23","slug":"this-is-a-difficult-question-health-minister-states-under-cross-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/this-is-a-difficult-question-health-minister-states-under-cross-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a difficult question &#8211; Health Minister states under cross-examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"This is a difficult question - Health Minister states under cross-examination\" title=\"This is a difficult question - Health Minister states under cross-examination\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>\u201cThis is a difficult question\u201d was the response of Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, to a question posed by lawyers for former Deputy Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson.<\/p>\n<p>Lead Counsel for Dr. Forson was seeking to assess the Minister\u2019s knowledge of documents in the custody of the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister is the fourth of the Attorney General\u2019s five witnesses to be relied upon in the prosecution of the former Deputy Finance Minister and two others accused of causing a 2.3 million euros loss to the state in the purchase of ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Dr. Forson on Tuesday, August 30 challenged the testimony of the Health Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Lead counsel, Dr. Abdul Aziz Bamba questioned the Minister on whether he reviewed all relevant documents before coming to testify.\u00a0 The Minister replied that he reviewed documents he was privy to.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bamba \u2013 \u201cAnd before coming to testify, you reviewed relevant documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister- \u201cI reviewed all documents that I sighted. Documents that I wasn\u2019t privy to, I couldn\u2019t have reviewed, I was not privy to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bamba \u2013 \u201cDo you know of any other documents at the Ministry of Health on the ambulance transactions that you did not review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister -\u201cThis is a difficult question. How will I know them? Sorry my lord. You said I should not ask a question. I do not know of any\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-examination of the Health Minister continues on Thursday, September 1.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a difficult question\u201d was the response of Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, to a question posed by lawyers for former Deputy Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson. Lead Counsel for Dr. Forson was seeking to assess the Minister\u2019s knowledge of documents in the custody of the Health Ministry. The Minister is the fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[24818,3677,403,1223,2037,2677],"class_list":["post-1195364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-crossexamination","tag-difficult","tag-health","tag-minister","tag-question","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}