The Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Alex Opoku-Mensah, has been suspended with immediate effect.
The suspension follows Mr. Opoku-raid Mensah's on the Manhyia Hospital in the Ashanti Region, where he reportedly assaulted a nurse for allegedly abusing his daughter, a doctor there.
According to a statement from the NSS, the choice was decided on November 30 at an urgent meeting between Mr. Opoku-Mensah and the Scheme's management.
"The management's decision is to allow further inquiry into the alleged verbal attack on a nurse on duty at the Manhyia Government Hospital in Kumasi," the statement said.
A committee made up of members from the National Service Scheme, the Public Services Commission, and the Ministry of Education has been established in the interim to look into the situation and deliver a report to the NSS Management within a month.
On Monday, December 5, 2022, Mr. Opoku-Mensah is anticipated to appear before the Committee.
Background
A nurse who reportedly had an argument with Mr. Opoku-daughter, Mensah's a doctor at the Manhyia hospital, was insulted on camera.
After his actions were extensively denounced on social media by the majority of Ghanaians, he later apologized.
"I do sorry for any error and guarantee everybody, there shall not be a rerun of such," Mr. Opoku-Mensah said in a message posted on his Facebook page.
The statement said, "I recognize the sadness and annoyance my activity has caused the public, Nursing Fraternity, and Manhyia Hospital, as well as the appreciation of those things."
A strike has also been warned by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association if the director is not fired within the next 72 hours.
The government has been given 72 hours to fire the appointee, or else the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, led by Philemon Adu Brempong, the vice chairman for the Ashanti region, will start taking industrial action.
The NSS Regional Director, according to Mr. Adu Brempong, is unqualified for the Director post he now occupies in the Public Service.