The interesting but worrying trend in Ghana, ‘sales in trotro’, with un-designated persons marketing and selling drugs in vehicles, which most people see as a menace is fast becoming a blessing in the Eastern region according to Kwasi Baah, regional correspondent of Happy FM.
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Reporting on the ‘Oman Ne Mu Te Sen’ segment of the ‘Happy Morning Show (HMS)’, Kwasi Baah said: ‘’The people who sell drugs in trotro, before they start selling educate people about coronavirus (COVID-19) and precautionary measures to undertake to protect oneself from catching the virus’’, Kwasi Baah said.
He also mentioned that there are information centres in the urban areas within the region, but his fears are for those living in the remote parts of town who are unaware of the ongoing pandemic.
‘’The sensitization is ongoing in the Eastern region, but information about virus is scanty in the remote villages. When you walk into offices in Koforidua and other big towns within the city, you will see a lot of veronica buckets placed at their entrances with soap and sanitizers but the same cannot be said for the villages, they also need to know what to do to prevent the themselves and what to do when they show symptoms’’, he told Samuel Eshun, host of HMS.
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Even though, most Ghanaians have called on government to ban the sale of drugs in buses, will the rejected stone in this case the trotro medicine seller become the cornerstone of coronavirus sensitization?
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, when he outlined plans the ministry is embarking on to educate Ghanaians on Coronavirus said they plan to appoint ambassadors to help push the education. Should government train these ‘medicine sellers’ to help with the education, rather than celebrities?
These are rhetorical questions, however, it is said necessity is the mother of invention.
By: Bridget Mensah