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A member of the communication team of
the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Boakye has called for the
arrest and prosecution of Joyce Dzidzor, AIDS Ambassador for deceiving
the public that she is HIV patient for many years.
Joyce has claimed over the years that she was HIV positive but was a healthy person because she was on antiretroviral drugs.
She
has had support and funding from several organizations, institutions,
banks and civil society in her campaign across the country on how to
prevent HIV and how persons who have tested positive can live healthily
and happily with the virus.
Surprisingly, Joyce, 27, has told
'News-One' she was only a scammer and that she decided to engage in a
wild public deceit so as to get a place to lay her head at a time her
neighbours were wrongly accusing her of having HIV.
“I was known
as the HIV ambassador. The story I shared in the past years was a fusion
of my story and the stories of others. The truth of the matter is, I
was never infected with HIV,” she said.
But reacting to the issue
on Oman Fm’s National Agenda, Nana Boakye says the lady's confession
will jeopardize the credibility of the campaign against HIV/AIDS as many
Ghanaians already don’t take the HIV/AIDS campaign serious.
He
insisted that the lady must be arrested and prosecuted for the public
deception as such behavior will have a long negative effect on the Ghana
AIDS Commission’s campaign against HIV/AIDS.
“This is a serious
indictment against the campaign of Ghana AIDS Commission; the
credibility of the campaign will go down if the lady is not arrested and
prosecuted. Already, Ghanaian youths don’t believe the existence of
HIV/AIDS and if this lady has confessed that she lied for money, then
Ghanaians will believe that the whole HIV/AIDS infection is a hoax”,, he
urged. |
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