General News of Friday, 9 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFounder of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai Odike on April 9, 2020, faulted government for considering a few groups in the country as vulnerable despite the impact of COVID-19 on the country. He explained that not all head porters (kayayei), street hawkers, and shoeshine boys who prior to the lockdown earned a living through non-formal activities can be classified as vulnerable because some of them used to make “unbelievable savings” daily. The UPP party founder indicated that they were also to be considered vulnerable. His comments came on the back of the government serving some 400,000 individuals in the Greater Accra and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan areas with daily hot meals and dry food. According to him, unemployed graduates who had no means of earning a living prior to the lockdown could be the most vulnerable in the present circumstances and so must also be brought into the bracket by government.

Source: GhanaWeb April 09, 2021 11:26 UTC