The office of former president John Dramani Mahama has debunked allegations by Joyce Dzidor Mensah that she was replaced by former First Lady Lordina Mahama as Heart to Heart ambassador after her contract was terminated.
In a statement, the office noted that the former first lady had nothing to do with the contract termination.
The statement further stated that Lordina Mahama was not appointed by the Ghana AIDS Commission as Joyce Dzidzor Mensah wants everybody to believe.
“Clearly, no H2H ambassador needs to be kicked out for a first lady to be appointed by UNAIDS as HIV ambassador. Indeed, in June 2013, Her Excellency Lordina Mahama was elected Vice President of OAFLA for West Africa and in June 2015, she was elected President of OAFLA (Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS).”
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The termination of Joyce Dzidzor Mensah’s appointment as a Heart to Heart (H2H) ambassador in 2012 had absolutely nothing to do with former First Lady Lordina Dramani Mahama or the President at the time.
According to a former Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr. Angela El-Adas, the former First Lady was not a Heart to Heart ambassador, rather, she chose to support the work of the ambassadors.
“By virtue of her position as First Lady, she was appointed Ghana’s premier ambassador on the UNAIDS ‘Global Plan for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and keeping mothers alive. She was appointed to this position by the UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) in April 2013," she said.
For one to be appointed a H2H Ambassador, you must be HIV positive, be a member of the Network of Association of Persons Living with HIV (NAP+ Ghana), a known community advocate for PLHIV, and you have to be appointed by the Ghana AIDS Commission.
The former First Lady’s appointment was not by the GAC, but an international appointment, just like the 2017 appointment of First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo as a UNAIDS Ambassador for HIV Advocacy in Ghana to achieve the 90-90-90 targets by 2020.
“Clearly, no H2H ambassador needs to be kicked out for a first lady to be appointed by UNAIDS as HIV ambassador. Indeed, in June 2013, Her Excellency Lordina Mahama was elected Vice President of OAFLA for West Africa and in June 2015, she was elected President of OAFLA (Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS).”
According to Dr. El Adas, as UNAIDS Ambassador, OAFLA Vice President and OAFLA President, financial support for Madam Lordina Mahama’s advocacy and HIV campaign went directly to the Ghana AIDS Commission.
Available information confirms that the GAC terminated Joyce Mensah’s contract in November 2012 as a result of a series of breaches. She was replaced by Mrs. Charity Danso Beluo, another HIV positive advocate and former Vice President of NAP+ Ghana, as a Heart to Heart Ambassador.
After the termination of her appointment, Joyce's stipends were stopped, but she was allowed to stay in her ‘safe house’, a GAC rented accommodation until the lease expired in September 2013. She is not owed any money or benefits by GAC.
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I guess you guys can read that's why you've taken the pain to comment. But please grow up! The article as it is, is not from the former President Mahama, so why attack him? I hope you are not NPP poodles doing your masters' bidding for some peanuts? You guys are part of the problem Ghana is faced with, Ignorance. If the journalist who wrote this news did not do the public a favour by purporting it is from the office of the former president, are you not savvy enough to read in between the lines? How could a former Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr. Angela El-Adas be from the office of the President? I hope another parrot will set out to say she was sent by the former president to respond to the aggrieved Joyce Dzidor?
Both of them are liars so I don't trust any of them! in any case does Mr Ndc flagbearer has to respond to anything concerning him that comes around? then I presume he has a lot to answer, because getting to 2020 a lot will be thrown out there and he need to answer if that is where his desperation is driving him into!Ghanaians know you and know you to promise and fail and promise not to promise but promised with nothing to show, those you can boast of are uncompleted buildings which have been paid off already and with nothing left to complete. Good name is better than riches and silence is golden! Don't forget about Akua Donkor too, she said she gave you Gold because she didnt have cash in exchange for the building you've taking back but you haven't refunded her gold can you please respond to that too? Mr Flagbearer I see you as cheap , Ghana is a small country but the people are not what you think they are majority of the population are very sophisticated and wouldn't take such a cheap person as their leader!Your advisers and sycophants are destroying you !
Mr. President, the paper and ink used for this statement could have been used for something more important. A disgraced non-HIV girl sleeping around with all manner of people wants to grow her dwindled reputation by rubbing herself off you and your wife. Please hold your peace.
If what Joyce is saying isn't true what are you waiting b4 you let the laws deals with her for defamation of character against Lordina