However, the Ministry of Agriculture has defended the reques<\/a>t<\/span><\/strong> saying, the vehicles would help them to move across the country to help affected farms.<\/p>\n Speaking on Citi FM\u2019s The Big Issue<\/em><\/strong>, the IMANI boss said the outbreak of bird flu in Ghana is a \u201cserious matter\u2026 in countries like Korea, somebody resigned because they couldn\u2019t manage it well.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Cudjoe cautioned that the nation must be very careful because \u201cwe don\u2019t know the vehicles that will be needed will be for intensive resuscitation especially when birds are in short supply. Don\u2019t forget; we import a lot of poultry. This is a national security threat. We need to safeguard the few birds we have.\u201d<\/p>\n Re-assign existing vehicles<\/strong><\/p>\n The Editor of the Business Finder newspaper, Toma Imihere on the same platform said although he understands the need for vehicles to fight bird flu, he was of the view that with the current economic situation, the government cannot afford to buy 12 new vehicles.<\/p>\n He asked, \u201cin these difficult times we are going through, are we saying that the Ministry of Food and Agric doesn\u2019t have 12 vehicles to re-assign temporarily for this issue that we have to buy fixed assets in order to solve a temporary problem?\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Toma](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3317.jpg\")
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