We launched a media campaign on the need for the draft alcohol policy, not least because Ghana’s Parliament discussed “Alcohol Abuse” on Thursday, June 18th, 2009. Some of the deliberations exposed the narrow understanding of the issues surrounding alcohol.

It was instructive to know that in an hour-long television programmed on Ghana’s State-Owned Television, Mr. Cudjoe of IMANI discussed the issues surrounding alcohol abuse and the need for an alcohol policy for Ghana with two leading Parliamentarians who took part in the debate.

Members will attest to this as Mr. Cudjoe sent out mobile text messages to alert them to watch. The programmed was repeated on Monday 3:00pm on GTV. Our web master is configuring relevant portions of the interview to be posted on AAMI website.

On Wednesday June 24, 2009, Mr. Odarme Darkwah, Deputy CEO of the FDB and Mr. Cudjoe were on Choice FM for an hour to explain why Ghana needed and Alcohol Policy. Our webmaster will work on posting the audio file on AAMI’s website.

Earlier, Mr. Cudjoe and the team had been briefing Mr. Kofi Essel, Ag. Head of Food Section, FDB on the policy.

Mr. Cudjoe also granted an interview to the State-owned Daily Graphic based on their project to review the alcohol laws in Ghana.

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