[ 2017-01-18 ]

CHRAJ chases former Ghana Health Service director over 5 ‘stolen’ vehicles
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative
Justice (CHRAJ) has moved into full gear,
investigating the whereabouts of five (5)
allegedly stolen vehicles belonging to the Upper
East Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health
Service (GHS).

The Commission has in effect, written to the
Regional Director, Ghana Health Service, Upper
East Region, Bolgatanga, Dr. Kofi Issah,
requesting him to assist investigate Dr. Kuoku
Awonoor-Williams, whom he took over from as the
Upper East Director of the Ghana Health Service
and the Director-General of the GHS, Dr. Ebenezer
Appiah-Denkyira.

The duo, Dr. Awoonor-Williams and Dr.
Appiah-Denkyira, are at the center of the alleged
stolen five (5) vehicles belonging to the Upper
East Directorate of the GHS.

Dr. Kuoku Awoonor-Williams, then Director of
Health Services in the Upper East Region, was
transferred to Accra in 2015 and was replaced by
Dr. Kofi Issah.

At the end of 2015 when stock was taken of the
vehicles available to the Service in the Upper
East Region after Dr. Awoonor-Williams had left
the Region, it was realized that five of the
vehicles, namely a Mitsubishi Pajero, Landcruiser
V8, VW Passat and two pickups could not be
accounted for.

Dr. Awoonor-Williams, according to inside sources,
secretly took the five (5) vehicles belonging to
the Upper East Regional Directorate of the Ghana
Health Service without following laid down
procedures for moving public property from one
location to the other.

The Transport Unit of the Upper East Regional
Health Directorate and the Director who took over
from Dr. Awoonor-Williams had no prior knowledge
of the movement of the five (5) vehicles from the
Region.

Dr. Awoonor-Williams, according to sources
familiar with the situation, has put some or all
the five (5) vehicles to his private use and has
since resisted efforts to retrieve those vehicles
back to the Upper East Region.

The Commission in a letter dated November 16, 2016
and signed by D.C. Hammond, Deputy Chief
Investigator, is demanding copies of the transfer
letter of Dr. Kofi Issah to the Upper East Region
as Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service
as well as the handing over notes he received from
Dr. Awoonor-Williams to assist in investigations.

The Commission also wants Dr. Issah to furnish it
with the list of vehicles at the Regional
Directorate at the time of his assumption of
office at Bolgatanga, and indicating which of them
were designated as project vehicles.

“Your response, together with the documents
should reach the offices of the Commission located
at the Old Parliament House, High Street Accra,
within twelve (12) days on receipt of this
letter,” the letter in part stated.

Persons familiar with the situation say the GHS
Council has not been so helpful in resolving the
situation.

Source - kasapafmonline.com

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