“All die be die” mongers need psychiatric examination – Minister

Deputy Minister of Environment Science and Technology, Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah says those who say “all die be die” need psychiatric examination.

He was speaking on Metro TV Good Morning Ghana Show.

Dr. Omane-Boamah did not directly say the Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo and his supporters need psychiatric examination but he noted that just like people who commit incest need psychiatric examination, so do those who say “all die be die”.

The other guest on the show, Youth Organizer of the CPP, James Kwabena Bomfeh had said “we need more psychiatric hospitals in Ghana to examine people who commit incest.”

Then Dr. Omane-Boamah interjected saying “yes we need more psychiatric hospitals to examine all these people, including those who say ‘all die be die’”.

Earlier in the programme he also accused the Executive Secretary of Danquah Institute, Gabby Okyere-Darko of swerving the show toavoid commenting on the “all die be die” issue.

“Myself and Gabby come on this show every Tuesday but today he has swerved the show because he does not want to talk about “all die be die” —in fact Gabby and Nana Akomea have been dodging the ‘all die be die’ statement since,” he said.

Dr. Omane-Boamah said those who claim “all die be die” should address themselves to some of the unique problems facing different groups of Ghanaians and they would know that “all die not be same die”.

The panelists also discussed issues about how squatters across the capital are impeding smooth development, particularly around the Korle Lagoon, Agbogbloshie, Sodom and Gomorah, West Legon and other parts of city.

The Deputy Minister said an effective plan has been designed to ensure that within the next two to three weeks, squatters around the Korle Lagoon areas and Sodom and Gomorah and Agbogbloshie would begin a resettlement process.

He noted that those areas have turned into market centres where even people from outside of the city go for business, so the plan is to relocate the market centres outside of the city to prevent the drift of people to those areas.

Mr. Bomfeh, aka, Cabilla said there was no justification in allowing squatters to mass up, provide them with utility and collect revenue from them and when they become problematic “we want to oust them to score political points.”

“We need to arrest the squatting problem as it emerges before it becomes a human rights issue when they have grown and we want to evict them,” he said.

Story by: Samuel Dowuona