The Member of Parliament (MP) Builsa South constituency, Dr Clement Apaak has waded into the widely circulated tape of the Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Alex Opoku-Mensah, and a Nurse at the Manhyia District Hospital in the Ashanti Region.
He condemned the act by the government appointee after describing his verbal utterances as 'distasteful'.
" . . In all honesty, to say the least, it is not only despicable but it's embarrassing, and the content is demeaning to the nursing profession . . . " Dr Apaak said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show, 'Ghana Montie'.
A furious Mr Opoku-Mensah is heard in a voice recording of the incident insulting and threatening the nurse over an issue with his daughter, who is a House Officer (Junior Doctor) at the Manhyia Hospital in Kumasi.
"I am in agreement with the decision of the Nurses and Midwives Association . . . with what he did it is an attack on their profession, not the individual nurse . . . we need to respect each other, we have to give respect to every profession," he said.
The Ashanti Regional NSS boss is heard accusing the nurse of disrespecting, and envying his daughter on the phone over an issue that was not made clear in the audio recording.
He has since issued a statement on Facebook to apologize for the incident – claiming it as not his 'style'.
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Sack Ashanti Region NSS boss
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association (GRNMA) has called on the government and the Public Services Commission to sack the Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Alex Poku Mensah.
The call follows an audio recording circulating on social media on which the Regional Director is heard hurling insults at a nurse at the Manhyia District Hospital in the Ashanti Region.
In a press release on November 29, 2022, the President of GRNMA, Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, called on the government to sack the Regional Director, popularly known as Omens. She mentioned that the Director is not fit for the position, thus should be sacked with immediate effect.
“Having considered the content of the audio and the report received from our Ashanti Regional branch, the leadership of GRNMA wishes for the Public Services Commission and government to sack the Regional Director immediately because he is not fit for the Director position in the public service.”
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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You just can't tell what goes into the thinking of some people. If you are a regional boss of a state department so what? It's silly to be asking people ' do you know who i am ' . I admire the lady nurse for standing firm. The days where people in authority think they can get away with what ever behavior are over and over for good. Assuming the nurse had also invited her father to come to her rescue can you imagine the scene. The interesting thing is that the national service man asked the nurse why'd she didn't report the case to her superiors . Since you know this, what prevented you (national service man) from also reporting the nurse to her superiors if you believe she acted unprofessionally towards your daughter who is the doctor in this case but decided to confront her? You equally said you taught science in a senior high school in Kumasi, so what prevented you from also becoming a medical doctor but decided to seek employment with the national service scheme? If all parents were to bring the results of grade 'A's' their daughters got, will your daughter even get space to present her results.? Next time wise up, this behavior is definitely not coming from an elderly person. You have demonstrated that Grey hair is not necessarily wisdom.
So what has this got to do with Apaak? Busy body, nothing to show! Stay out of this issue before it turns into your usual NPP and NDC ***barred word***.
I wonder why the government should put such irresponsible people in certain positions. Fooooolish man