NDC thugs fight NHIS boss

Drama unfolded at the offices of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) at Dunkwa-On-Offin on Tuesday when three heavily built National Democratic Congress (NDC) members besieged the office with machetes and other offensive weapons to sack Charles Ackom Hayford, the scheme Manager from office.

The NDC goons ordered the staff to leave the premises within a second or lose their lives: a situation which compelled them to run helter skelter leaving behind their bags, files and other valuable items.

Ackom Hayford apparently scared by the action of the NDC hoodlums went to report the matter to the Dunkwa-On-Offin police.
According to a police source, when Ackom Hayford was about to leave the police station after his complaint, one Akwasi Kwesi Dramani, an aide to the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, walked in and brought the scheme’s office keys to the police.

Meanwhile, reports say that the raging impasse is in connection with Dr Mark Nawany, the NDC Constituency Chairman, who operates a private clinic in the area, and was alleged to have inflated the bills of people who visit the facility with NHIS identification cards.

The scheme authorities in the district upon noticing the malpractice handed Dr Nawany’s clinic an indefinite suspension banning the clinic from attending to patients who visit the place with NHIS cards.

The action of the NHIS, the paper gathered, was not taken lightly by the NDC chairman who held an emergency meeting with the party executives in the constituency on March, 6, 2010 to discuss how best they could unseat Ackom Hayford.

However, the MCE of the area, Kofi Ehyia, has called back the workers to continue with their work whiles the police investigate the matter.