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The Communications Director of the NDC in the Central Region, Allotey Jacobs has called for the immediate dismissal of the Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Professor Ohene Adjei, for involving himself in active partisan politics.
Prof. Ohene Adjei publicly described NPP flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as a war monger during a meeting with NDC party faithful.
But Allotey Jacobs said that was a violation of the constitution which prohibits civil servants from doing active politics. “The professor did not respect his office as a civil servant and he must be dismissed,” he said on Adom Dwaso Nsem.
Allotey Jacobs said the behavior of the professor was unfortunate and does not auger well for the development of the hospital and the country as a whole.
His call was not different from that of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Frederick Fredua Anto, who was worried that the behavior of the KATH Boss could deny the hospital of valuable support from philanthropists who do not sympathize with the NDC.
“KATH enjoys great support from institutions and individuals who do not necessarily support the NDC and when these people get to know that the CEO is doing politics they will withdraw their support and the hospital will suffer for the indiscretion of one man,” Mr. Ato said.
But the Ashanti Regional General Secretary of the NDC, Joseph Yamin insists that the KATH boss did no wrong in expressing his opinion about the “all die be die” statement by Nana Addo.
He said it was no secret that top positions in the civil service are political appointments so Prof. Ohene Adjei was not wrong in making open political statements like his predecessor, Prof. Nsiah Asare did when he was in office.
Mr. Yamin alleged that he had in the past been on a number of radio talk shows with Prof. Nsiah Asare who openly articulated positions in support of the NPP and against the NDC.
But Prof. Nsiah Asare denied ever doing open partisan politics when he was CEO of KATH under the NPP, adding that he had never been on the same panel with Mr. Yamin on radio and challenged him (Yamin) to provide evidence to support his claims.
Story: Samuel Mantey/Adom News/Ghana
