Kloma Hengme Association, a very vibrant group on Kroboland is mounting pressure on the Upper Manya Krobo District Health Director Esther Dua Oyinka to retract and apologize to Krobos over her Covid-19 vaccination commentary which the group says has brought embarrassment to Krobos.
The Upper Manya Krobo District Health directorate recently lamented that, out of the estimated fifty thousand, one hundred and four (50,104) people in the district expected to be vaccinated by the end of this year, only 282 had fully been vaccinated since the inception of the vaccination exercise.
That, about 820 persons who took the first jab was yet to take the second dose.
According to the District Health Director, Esther Dua Oyinka, some of the reasons for the high hesitancy in the district included the fact that there is misinformation the ruling New Patriotic Party government intends to use the vaccine to change the minds of electorates in the district to vote for the NPP in 2024 and subsequent elections.
“Some of the rumours are that if you are a man and you take the vaccine you will become impotent which a falsehood is. Others are saying if you are a lady, you will cease menstruation and you cannot give birth any longer, others say if you take it you are going to die that it will push you to your early grave because you will experience some funny signs and symptoms in your body. Even some are saying it is the government that has put in certain things to make up for the vaccine to vaccinate them so that it will change their minds from voting for any other party except the sitting party,” She lamented.
This comment carried by the media has received varied reactions on social media.
President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday dismissed this perception during his address to the Nation.
“Let me state, as clearly as I can. The vaccines are safe. They will not harm you. They will not harm you. They will protect you and your family. Contrary to the mischief being peddled by some, getting vaccinated will not cause you to vote for the NPP in the 2024 elections if you do not want to”.
Chairman of Kloma Hengme group, Tamatey Otu, has been pestering the Upper Manya Krobo District Health Director to apologize.
The group contends that the comment is disparaging and has caused embarrassment to Krobos.
“Due to your failure to apologize, now a whole president is referring to it, further adding insults to our injury” the latest message by the Chairman to the Health Director intercepted by National Security.
Meanwhile, the Assembly Members in Upper Manya Krobo District in the Eastern region have appealed to residents to make themselves available to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Speaking on behalf of the 33 assembly members, the Presiding member Eric Tettey said turnout for the inoculation has not been encouraging.
He assured residents that the vaccine is safe, and has the efficacy to protect them from the deadly Covid-19 virus.
The Presiding member said this during the farmer’s day celebration durbar at Asesewa.
He described it as the false impression that residents are hesitant due to eranouse political misconceptions about the vaccine.
“If you want to travel outside the country and you don’t have the full dosage you are not inoculated you cannot go. As I stand here, I have been fully vaccinated nothing happened to me .so we members of the Upper Manya Krobo District Assembly, want to put it on record that the statement is false whoever reported about that is not doing us any good. We are not demonstrating against it, we want to do the needful, we are going to take our covid vaccination and then to ensure that we all take out jabs” He said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
