13 Ghanaians Died, You Spent $6M On George Floyd — Ocansey Exposes NPP’s Wicked Choice

Jeffrey Ocansey, Executive Director of Revenue Mobilisation Africa, has dropped a bombshell that should make every Ghanaian angry.

According to him, the NPP government spent $6 million on a memorial for George Floyd — an African-American killed in America — while 13 Ghanaians died right here in Ghana because they could not get dialysis treatment.

$6 million dollars to honour someone in America. But no money to buy dialysis machines to save our own mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who were dying in Korle-Bu and other hospitals.

13 Ghanaians lost their lives during the dialysis crisis. 13 families buried their loved ones, not because their disease could not be treated, but because the system failed them. No machines. No consumables. No support.

And yet, there was $6 million to fly, to organise ceremonies, to add George Floyd’s name to a memorial at the W.E.B Du Bois Centre and to show the world how “sympathetic” Ghana was.

Ocansey’s question is simple: Who matters more? An American or a Ghanaian?

He says crime has no expiry date. What was done wrong then must be answered now. You cannot spend millions on optics abroad while your own people are dying at home, and expect Ghanaians to forget.

This is not about disrespecting George Floyd. His death was painful and his life mattered. But charity begins at home. You cannot mourn a stranger loudly while you watch your own brother die quietly.

If $6 million was available for a memorial, why was it not available for dialysis?

That is the question Ocansey wants the NPP to answer. And according to him, that answer must come, because crime has no expiry date.

SamuelAppau feedback-opera-news-app@opera.com