Ambulance carrying cement was being test-driven by mechanic - Ambulance Service says

Public Relations Officer of the service Simon Yusif Kawula told Accra-based Citi FM in an interview on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, that the ambulance in question had a fault with its gearbox and was sent to a mechanic to repair at Manprobi in Accra.

He confirmed that the said ambulance is one of the 307 purchased in 2019 under the One-constituency-One-Ambulance initiative and distributed to the various parts of the country.

Kawula added that the ambulance which belongs to the Sege constituency in the Greater Accra region was being test-driven by the mechanic before it ended up at Budumburam in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region where it was filmed being used for the haulage of cement.

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The Ambulance Service’s reaction follows a disheartening video that shows a group of men loading bags of cement into the state-owned ambulance unapologetically.

Two men, believed to be workers at a cement shop, were captured busily packing them into the ambulance in compliance with instructions by a middle-aged man, clad in a pink Lacoste with a bald head.