The Press Secretary to Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Ama Pratt, has appealed to her colleague journalists and broadcasters to draw her attention to any issue of national concern that they need her boss to respond to.
According to her, although she is the Press Secretary to the Vice President, she cannot be everywhere at the same time.
Ms Pratt made the appeal during an interview on Accra-based Adom FM on August 4.
She was answering a question on why Prof Opoku-Agyamang did not commiserate with the families of the 16 members of the Saviour Church of Ghana who died in an accident on July 28 on the Atwedie stretch of the Kumasi–Accra highway.
The deceased were interred in a mass grave on Thursday, July ,31,2025.
In response Ms Pratt said in Twi, “I am hearing this story for the first time from you. Abena please pause, you are treading on slippery grounds…Abena, how beautiful would it have been for you, seeing as you have my phone number, to have drawn my attention to such a tragic incident,” she appealed.
Ms Pratt added, “The governance of this country is not reserved for a select few. It is for all of us. How I wish I had my ears everywhere, but I have only two ears and two eyes. Abena, do you think that if our mother (Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang) had heard about this incident, she wouldn’t have reacted?”
She wondered why the interviewer did not inform her when the accident occurred, “So, the time that you spent waiting to make an issue out of this, if you had used that to prompt us, would that not have been better?”
“Yesterday, I did not listen to radio the whole day. So, you think the Vice President heard about this incident and refused to comment? Don’t say that. You should have prompted us. That is what is called resetting,” she explained.
Ms Pratt called for a change in the mindset of Ghanaians, “We should all remember that if Ghana succeeds, we all benefit. The benefits will not be enjoyed by some. We will all enjoy. If Ghana fails, we all lose. If you go to the fuel station to buy fuel, no one will ask whether you are NDC or NPP. We all buy at the same price. So, let’s accept the responsibility that the country belongs to all of us.”
The Press Secretary emphasized that, “The governance of this country is about connectedness, it’s about a feeling of owning the country. This is so important to me. That we will understand that the country belongs to all of us. We all have a responsibility to get it right.”
Asked whether she did not think her team should be faulted for not bringing this tragic incident to the attention of the Vice President, she stated that, “I will accept personal responsibility for it. The Vice President has not done anything wrong. I am personally responsible for this. As I said earlier, I am a human being with two ears and two eyes. I wish I had 6,000 ears so that I would be able to hear what goes on in every region, but unfortunately, I am limited because of my humanity.”
