I am sorry, I was misled-Afenyo-Markin apologise to Tidal Waves victims
Hon Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament has apologized unreservedly to the victims of tidal waves and the entire Volta people for using the wrong photograph to back his claims that there was activities sand weaning in the area leading to the tidal waves.
According to him, a further search on the documents shown to the media last week indicated that, the photograph was not taken from a sand weaning activity in Ghana and that it was an activity that happened elsewhere a few years ago.
Briefing media in parliament on Tuesday, November 16, Hon Afenyo-Markin retracted and apologized to the people of the area and his colleague Members of Parliament who are from the area.
Last week Friday, the Deputy Majority Leader claimed the havoc caused by the storm surge along the coastline of Keta, Anloga and the Ketu South Municipality as a result of activities of sand weaning in the communities.
He did display a photograph of sand weaning activities involving heavy load trucks at a seashore loading sand into their buckets with the caption, “Activities of Sand Weaning in Keta”.
The image has since been proven not to be from Keta but rather from Sierra Leone
But it was debunked by people in the communities as well as their representatives in Parliament who went further to prove that the said picture was not in Ghana.
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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