The Minister of Health, Dr. Oko Boye, is trying to pull off a soft landing in the clearing of backlog of critical medical supplies currently held at the port without any serious hitch, but workers at the ministry say for the move to come to fruition, the minister must take steps to overhaul the ministry and rid it off the saboteurs that put roadblocks in his processor’s way.
The civil servants intimated that progress of works have stalled and in some instances are completely abandoned because the same devils who threw the former health minister under the bus are still there and in charge at the ministry.
“As I speak to you the ministry o finance has given clearance for 3000 workers; like labourers, cleaners and to be employed by the ministry for the various regions, but one particular director is harbouring it to the chagrin of the other workers. I doubt if the minister knows about this. It is election year for crying out loud and if there’s anytime to help the people, it must be now,” workers with knowledge of goings-on at the ministry told this paper.
From the Director-General to the deputy directors and agency heads under the ministry, the workers say there must be a shake-up, lest not much progress would be made, especially, given that the general election barely five months from now.
Instead of working to ensure the safety of Ghanaians, New Crusading GUIDE learnt that the they are rather jostling to outdo each other.
So intense is the internal wrangling that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at the Ridge Police Station in Accra, is investigating the circumstances under which the name and signature of one of the deputy directors at the Ministry of Health was used in duping a Health Tutor at Jirapa Nursing College, in the Upper West Region.
The probe, police sources familiar with the case say, follows an official complaint by Dr. Abraham Donkor when he became of a fraudulent activity involving an unknown person using his identity to defraud one Mark Bonnir.
“I request that this case be thoroughly investigated and that the responsible individual be brought to justice for defrauding Mr. Bonnir and using my identity for such criminal activities,” Dr Donkor charged the police.
The New Crusading GUIDE gathered that on Monday, 27 May 2024, one Emmanuel Mwini and Health Tutor at Jirapa Nursing College who had been duped drew Dr. Donkor attention to the face Mr Bonnir, had been defrauded of forty-four 44,000 Ghana cedis.
Mr. Bonnir’s report was that one Alex Ziemah, forwarded a letter to him that had been edited from an original document signed by Dr. Kwesi Asabir, Human Resource Director, which edited letter fraudulently used Abraham Donkor (Ph.D.), to deceive Mr. Bonnir.
He intimated that “Upon receiving this report, I immediately went to the Chief Director’s Office to inform him. However, due to the serious nature of this fraud and the misuse of my name, I believe it is necessary to seek a detailed investigation by the Ghana Police Service to identify and apprehend the person responsible because this is not the first time that such a person’s misuse of my name has happened.”
Interestingly, since the case was reported to the Chief Director, Alhaji Hafiz Adam, nothing has been done about it. Rather, this paper learnt that the man who had fallen victim to the fraud was reportedly handed over to a man who allegedly introduced himself as coming from the National Investigation Bureau (NIB).
He was subsequently escorted out of the Ministry of Health premises without any further action.
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