A section of Ghanaians have disputed a claim made by the minister-designate for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghana’s Covid19 tracker app with its launching did not cost the taxpayer a pessewa.
In a post sighted by African Entertainment on her official Facebook page, Madam Owusu-Ekuful indicated that “The covid-19 tracker app with its launching did not cost the taxpayer a pessewa.“
But a number of Ghanaians took to the comment section under her post to dispute claim, urging her and other government officials to be honest to the masses at least for once.
Ghana’s vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Communications, launched the app designed to help in tracing people who have come into contact with COVID-19 positive individuals, in April 2020.
The app is meant to augment the government’s effort in the fight against the global pandemic.
The COVID-19 Tracker App is able to trace contacts of persons infected by the virus and show where they have been in recent times through various telephone-related data, and link such people to health professionals for urgent action to be taken.
The app, through the same telephone-related data, is also able to report contacts which are, or have recently been to COVID-19 hit countries, as well as track whether individuals required to self-quarantine, are indeed doing so.
On 23 March the president of Ghana signed the Executive Instrument 63 on the establishment of emergency communication services and that this was now being set up with telecommunication companies by using the metadata behind phone communications.
A number of musicians including Shatta Wale, performed at the launch of the app last year and there were rumors that they were paid thousands of cedis.
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