Professor Alex Dodoo, a Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Ghana, has been pardoned by Ghana’s Parliamentarians after he allegedly described the MPs as “ignorant” over their comments regarding the Ebola vaccine clinical trial.
[contextly_sidebar id=”eeQPcfOAUE9PRpC5D0R0X6FDpxl8E7Fj”]Parliament on Friday asked him to “Go and sin no more.”
Prof. Dodoo apologised last week through his lawyer Yonny Kulendi after he was hauled before Parliament’s Privileges Committee.
Yonny Kulendi said his comment was not in anyway to undermine Parliament.
“To the extent that this House whether correctly or incorrectly takes the slightest view that his comments were an affront to the dignity of this House, I hold his instruction to hold on record, Mr Chairman, his unconditional, irrevocable apology to this House. He honours this House and could not have been tendered to disrespect this House,” Yonny Kulendi told the Privileges Committee.
Background
The food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in June gave an international pharmaceutical company approval to commence Ebola Vaccines trial in Ghana.
The vaccine trial was scheduled to start in Hohoe in the Volta Region, but several civil society organizations including the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science, the Volta regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and some residents, kicked against the exercise.
The trial was suspended following the public uproar and an order from Parliament.
But Prof. Dodoo in a reaction, reportedly said the MPs needed to apologise to Ghanaians for their ‘ignorant’ statements.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana