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Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh, has dismissed reports and videos circulating on social media about the kind of food that the organization is sharing to the homeless and vulnerable in society.

As part of measures to provide relief to underprivileged Ghanaians affected by the partial lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the NADMO to distribute relief items, both cooked and non-cooked food items, to this category of people.

Following the President's directive to feed over 400,000 people in these trying times, there have been viral videos on social media showing some people expressing their dissatisfaction and resentments over the nature of the food given them.

Some have complained that the food doesn't meet any nutritious standard and wondered why they would be given such food to consume.

Addressing the issue on Peace FM's 'kokrokoo' program on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, the NADMO Boss asked the general public to ignore such videos.

To him, the circulation of those video are all part of grand propaganda against the government.

He told host Kwami Sefa Kayi that the President is very concerned about the condition of the people and so has directed the NADMO to give hygienic food to the beneficiaries.

He noted that the NADMO will not give anything that doesn't add hygienic value to the receivers and so, is using the services of trained school feeding caterers to prepare the food.

''The President's instruction to us was that apart from the fact that we giving food to the people, we should look at the hygienic aspect of it so that we don't give someone food and later on record cases of cholera and other related diseases. So, we're using the trained school feeding caterers," he stressed.

Listen to Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi