Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has labeled as “absolutely false” portions of the Covid-19 Corruption Risk Assessment report which accused government of mismanaging funds meant for the pandemic.
The Community Development Alliance (CDA) in a report issued on Tuesday highlighted that the Communication Ministry as part of an effort to fight Covid-19 expended over $1 million to procure and launch the Covid-19 tracker app in the country.
Rubbishing the claim, Mrs Ekuful indicated that the report is only a figment of someone’s imagination.
“I am surprised that this organisation which claims it is putting together a Corruption Risk Assessment of our Covid-19 response will elevate speculation by rumours and absolute falsehood as facts. And then packaged them in a nicely bound report and use that to impugn the integrity of this government,” she said on Joy Prime Morning.
“So I want to see the supposed contract that they claim government has signed with these entities for the provision of the technologies,” she told host Daniel Dadzie.
She further challenged the report daring its originators to produce evidence to back it else it’ll only be used as toilet paper.
“If I am challenging this one fact, then it puts the entire package of lies that they have put out there. The entire work must be questioned and I urge every institution named in this research to take a copy and look at it. To verify whether or not what has been put out there is a figment of their imagination or it is what really happened.”
“I am putting this group of researchers to strict proof and insist that they certify the work that they have done or we will use it as toilet paper,” she was categorical.
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