The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Hudu Mogtari, has been relieved of his post by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with immediate effect.
The decision to remove him from office was communicated to him last week from the presidency.
Mr. Mogtari took over from Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, whose alleged reign of terror crippled the pharmaceutical industry after owners of companies he suspected were not sympathetic to the cause of the then ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) were targeted and victimised.
Pharmaceutical companies that purportedly suffered serious victimisation in the hands of Dr. Opuni were Tobinco, Kingdom and Kinapharma.
One of his purported cronies, a certain Delese Mimi Darko – who is said be an NDC woman – is currently lobbying to be appointed FDA boss and is believed to be using her father’s connections.
Her father is said to be an NPP man, but DAILY GUIDE learnt that her appointment can only be a perpetuation of Opuni’s regime.
Other people Dr Opuni allegedly used to harass the pharmaceutical companies are believed to be Amedzro, Nathaniel Nkrumah and Asante Boateng.
Dr Opuni, upon assumption of office as the FDA boss, allegedly cleared all the top people in management positions and planted his favourites.
For instance, Ben Botwe, a deputy CEO, was sent to the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) and finally sent home and Akrasi Sarpong came to replace him; and one Rev Martey was also reported to have been relieved of his post by Opuni.
The outgoing FDA boss, Hudu Mogtari, is the husband of Joyce Bawa-Mogtari, a former deputy Minister of Transport, who was also the Communication Director of the John Mahama 2016 electioneering campaign team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Source: Daily Guide
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Daily Guide spare us all this narrative. After all when you sack these people in public offices that you claim are NDC, they are not replaced by neutrals but rather NPP guys. So the value is the same neither NPP or NDC is doing the right thing. The same will happen when power change hands again and at the end of the day is the majority of the citizens who are short chained. So to you all excited about this development what do you gain from all these happenings. until we read in between the deceit of these politicians we will always be played by them to the benefit of the few who are closer to them.
Mrs. Delese Darko, an NDC??? What? Opuni sacked Mr. Ben Botwe??? I can't think far. Please! please!! please!!!, know your fact before you come out with a story like this. Aaaba! A lot of things said in that story is never true. Let's be serious and stop this dirty politics.
Massa Otolio -2 ; The last paragraph of this piece tells you how tribalistic your leader Jon Mahama and the NDC was in filling all the relevant positions with relatives and people from the North; the NDC party was founded on tribal sentiments which was perpetuated by your founder KRIMINAL founder JJ Rawlings ;today you have lost JJ Rawlings because it is likely JJ Rawlings and Nana Addo will become in laws and that will finish the NDC ; NO MORE JJ RAWLINGS !!!!!! today the NDC is infested with Ewes;/Gas/ Northners and reptiles like these uless tribe who will kow-tow to anything because of their stomachs ; today the motto is : 'I DO YOU TODAY ; YOU DO ME TOMMOROW' because this a pattern started by JJ Rawlings ; today all NDC stillers in responsible positions will be REMOVED PRONTO !!!!!!!because whether you can serve Nana Addo or not we simply kick your ***barred word*** !!!!!!!to STOP THE INCOMPETENT AND STILLING MAYHEM.
OTOLIO. you're a big ***barred word***. ***barred word*** anamu
Npp have more qualified people. Are the Npp people Ivorian s the y are also Ghanaian s, therefore proceed on leave.
@Otolio - I want to believe you were living in Uzbekistan when the NDC came to power in 2008 so you didn't see and hear this same "Proceed on Leave" issue, seizure of toilets and toll booths, etc. But let me tell you this - the NDC is being served the same medicine they served the then opposition party NPP so kindly ***barred word*** if you don't know the facts.
one of the family and friends. the husband of 'we are in a comfortable lead'. house cleaning one after the other
One of the good ones. Sad
You did not see these proceed on leave during 8 the years of NDC? please you were blind by then because you were intoxicated with NDC power.
WHY IS IT THAT ANYTIME THE NPP COMES TO POWER THIS PROCEED ON LEAVE AND GO HOME BECOMES TOO RAMPANT WHY? ARE THEY NOT GHANAIANS? ALL THOSE ASKED TO GO HOME HAVE FAMILIES AND ARE GHANAIANS WHEN WILL THIS STOP? SINCE YOU ARE SACKING THEM AND PLANTING YOUR PEOPLE THERE THEY WILL ALSO BE SACKED WHEN A NEW GOVT, COMES SO WHEN WILL THIS END. PROF. MILLS MADE MANY PEOPLE STAY ON THEIR JOBS AND I KNOW SO MANY NPP MEMBERS WHO WERE IN HIGH PLACES EVEN IN JM TIME AND WERE THERE TILL TODAY. WE TOLD YOU SO.