Ghana sends cocoa to Haiti

Known for her generous and peace loving people, Ghana has once again shown another kind gesture by donating 3 million US Dollars and a quantity of relief items, plastics, medications and some cocoa products for the people of Haiti.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, made the presentation on behalf of the Government and people of Ghana at the Ministry of Information to the United Nations (UN) country director, his Excellency Dauda Toure.

Hon. Mumuni said before presenting the items that Ghana sympathizes with the people of Haiti and is ready to help solve problems of all people including those whose lineage is African.

The UN country director thanked the Government and people of Ghana, for not only donating to the Haitians, but also supporting the UN in every aspect of its programmes like peace keeping.

"Ghana has been active in peace keeping activities and sharing burdens of other nations who need military support," Hon. Toure said.

The Deputy Minister of Information, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, reminded all Ghanaians to be committed to our tradition of being supportive and generous. He said Ghana has been committed to humanity and the whole of Africa from the slave trade through the colonial era to the time of independence to apartheid and hurricane Katrina. In support of the victims of the earthquake, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin- North also donated an amount of ten thousand US Dollars. According to the MP of Assin North he was motivated to do this when he saw on the television how Europeans were assisting Haiti, which is a black African state. According to him, there was no African country giving any aid except Senegal who opted to give a land for the Haitians.

Hon. Agyapong made it clear that he was not donating on the basis of political reasons or popularity but was doing this to serve a nation that is really in need. He used the opportunity to thank the Mills' government for heeding to his call for assistance for the Haitians and called on African leaders to always contribute in times of disasters such as this.