A Board Member of the Covid-19 Countrywide Trust Fund Board of Trustees, Archbishop Justice Offei, states the trustees are completely ready to refund must any institution request for their donation.
In an job interview with JoyNews’ Joseph Opoku Gakpo, Archbishop Offei indicated that the board of trustees will run with what they have, to enable combat the influence of Covid-19 on the vulnerable citizens.
“We’ll use what we have, so if anyone at the end of the working day wishes to just take his or her cash from it, we are ready to refund and use what is available for people who want to be served,” he explained.
This arrives right after the Minority in Parliament, led by the Daboya Mankarigu constituency MP, Shaibu Mahama, wrote to the Legal professional-Standard demanding that, monies donated to the Covid-19 Belief Fund by point out institutions, be refunded to them.
According to the member of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament, community institutions have no standing to donate the monies to the Covid-19 Trust Fund.
Even so, the Board Member mentioned that, it doesn’t issue which institution donates to the Fund, so long as the funds is made use of judiciously and properly.
“I consider we are all battling a common enemy and so, it does not make any difference which human body is supplying or acquiring the revenue, so extensive as they are carrying out the perform which the Fund has been founded for [so] I do not imagine it matters no matter if public or non-public,” he stated.
Outlining the mandate of the Fund and its Trustees, Archbishop Offei claimed, the Fund will be operating just like any other fund of authorities.
Therefore, it would be accountable to the Auditor-General’s Division and the General public Account Committee.
He then urged citizens to lead to the Fund to relieve the vulnerable individuals who, have been poorly strike by the pandemic and assistance the nation’s frontline personnel.
