, BUT AMA BENYIWA DOE DENIED.
Kofi Duodo, who was knocked down by President Atta Mills’ convoy during the last visit to the Central Region will soon seek legal action against the NDC government for neglecting him.
Kofi Duodo, chairman of the Pedu taxi station in Cape Coast, went to the office of DAILY GUIDE yesterday to express his discomfort and disappointment about President Mills’ inability to cater for his hospital expenses even though they had earlier promised to bear the cost of his treatment.
According to him, Kofi Duodu, all efforts to contact the Central Regional Minister, Ama Benyiwa Doe, to consider his plight, had proved futile, adding that since his predicament, he had only been given some few GH Cedis which had not been able to cover all his hospital expenses.
Mr Duodo, who wept sorrowfully at the DAILY GUIDE office, said even though the Regional Coordinating Council in a letter dated May 12, 2009 gave him the permission to go for treatment at the Koforidua Catholic Hospital for them to cover the bill, they had totally refused to pay the cost of almost GH¢900 he incurred, (WHERE IS THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSUARANCE?) as well as his personal cost of GH¢670.
He said he went to Mrs. Benyiwa Doe to address his problem but she asked him to go and look for the motor rider who knocked him down at Adisadel in Cape Coast.
“How can Ama Benyiwa Doe say that to me, he said, when the same motor bike which crippled me was leading their convoy? I’m an NDC sympathizer so if they are doing this to me, what then would happen to an NPP person?” he lamented. The sad thing about the whole issue is that the Central Regional Minister, Ama Benyiwa Doe who was among the convoy is denying the accident and the promise they made.
FRANCIS TAWIAH (Duisburg – Germany)
Source: GhanaWeb
