Covid-19: Mahama Demands Fairness in Distribution of Government’s Free Food
Mahama suggested that, the local authorities should be consulted in the distribution of government's free food
Jonas Danquah 
Former President of Ghana, and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has demanded fairness in the distribution of the government’s free food to the needy amid the covid-19 pandemic.
According to Mr. Mahama there have been “unfortunate reports of demands for party affiliation as an identifier for free food, bought from the state’s resources.”
“This must end now and immediately because coronavirus does not know NPP and NDC. Neither does it know CPP, PNC, PPP or APC etc,” he said.
Mahama suggested that local authorities which include: traditional authorities, Assemblymen and women, NGOs and faith-based organisations in the communities should be consulted on how to fairly distribute the packages.
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These bodies, the NDC leader believes would “steer and ensure fair, equitable and non-partisan distribution of food and essential items to the vulnerable, including people with disability.”
His comments follow similar complaints by NDC parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso West Wuogon, John Dumelo, who said his team had to locate a victim of such discrimination to give her food.
Mahama was speaking when he himself led an NDC team to distribute food items which would cater for some 20,000 households in the areas under lockdown in the Greater Accra region, Kasoa and parts of the Ashanti Region.
The lockdown has, however, been extended by a week in a bid to contain the spread of the virus while scores of people on social media are calling for a nationwide lockdown.
