Six members of Kandahar Boys, a group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), whose members attacked the Tamale Teaching Hospital and chased out the Chief Executive Officer, have been arrested by police.
They were picked up at 2:00pm on Wednesday, and taken to the Northern Regional Police Command for further interrogations.
The NPP Kandahar Boys group and its allies on Monday chased Dr. David Zaawumya Kolbila out of office.
The groups; the Kandahar Boys and the Concerned NPP Youth Coalition had accused Dr. David Kolbila of incompetence and misuse of hospital funds. They also said he had neglected them despite the role they played in getting him appointed.
Dr. Kolbila was subsequently reinstated on Tuesday, after REGSEC unlocked his office and assured him of security.
Staff complicit
Preliminary investigations had indicated that some staff of the hospital instigated the pro New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth groups to chase out Dr. Kolbila.
The recurrent attacks on former CEOs of the Tamale Teaching Hospital is largely influenced by partisan politics.
On February 23, 2017, a group affiliated to the New Patriotic Party (NPP), known as the Northern Young Patriots in a similar fashion demanded the immediate dismissal of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prosper Akambong.
The group’s Chairman, Bashiru Baba at a news conference in Tamale, accused Dr. Akambong of superintending over corruption, nepotism and abuse of human rights of staff.
He also claimed that Dr. Prosper Akambong reduced the major referral health facility to a death trap.
Similar arrests in such situations have come to nothing, as the cases do not go the full length due to the political interference.
Source: citinewsroom
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Cantata concert......forget!!! Enko si aga!!!
come tomorrow, the press will have a new headline and these boys will be set free and adviced to lay low for a while before striking again somewhere else. nation of clouns with hopes of development.
Is king time this party ***barred word*** activists should start to behave. Now your people are suffering and is putting pressure on the other sub hospitals that are not referral centers. We all can never be satisfied with whoever is appointed as CEO because one might either be a Christian, a Muslim, I Gonja, Dagomba or others which ever way stands the chance of being seen as partisan,or Nepotism if you like it. We only need accord with the appointee and consider the plight of our clients first. Sacking or threatening or beating up a CEO doesn't give you qualification to become one. All people in the north especially the NPP guys should cooperate with your president appointee to ensure smooth delivery of conducive services.