Tema MCE visits residents as Akufo-Addo’s free food Ambassador

The Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Felix Mensah Nii Anang-La, has toured the Metropolis, bearing gifts in the form of free food and hand sanitizers from President Akufo-Addo to the masses.

In a show of wartime leadership at a time that Ghana was battling the deadly Coronavirus, the MCE touched base at markets and the Tema Mantse’s palace to distribute both hot meals and uncooked staples, as well as the sanitizers to the vulnerable in the metropolis.

The first part of the tour was around the markets in the Metropolis, where he passed on President Akufo-Addo’s free hand sanitizers to men and women in the markets.

This was in a news statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Saturday.

Stop-overs included; the Chemu Park market at Community 7, the Akodzo Park market at Community 1 and the Oninku park market, also at Community 1.

Anang-La shared free hand sanitizers at all of these markets to the market folks who had obviously become aware of the need for social distancing and were already practising same.

While distributing the gifts, the MCE took time to drum home further, the need for them to practise the social distancing protocols and hygiene to ensure that they did not contract the virus and spread it.

On the lockdown and the deployment of the Military and Police, he explained to them that Government had to take that difficult decision because of the need to preserve lives, encouraging the market women to cooperate with the security operatives.

From the market, the MCE and his entourage moved to the Tema Mantse’s Palace at Manhean, where he personally distributed food to the vulnerable, especially, the elderly.

Those who preferred were given uncooked rice in mini sacks so that they could cook on their own at home, while those who preferred to eat immediately were given cooked kenkey and cooked rice with stew.

A throng of eager and grateful residents lined up, in queues spaced with deliberate social distancing received their gifts, which the MCE said was from the father of the nation, President Akufo-Addo, to them.

The beneficiaries called down heaps of blessings on both the MCE and the President for the kind gesture, while some sangs songs of gratitude, nicknaming the MCE as President Akufo-Addo’s COVID-19 Ambassador of free food and sanitizers to the poor and needy.