The Ashanti Regional director of the National Service Secretariat, Mr Alex Opoku-Mensah has been suspended for two months without pay.
The suspension was communicated in a letter to him by the Executive Director of the Secretariat, Osei Assibey Antwi.
The letter dated December 23, 2022, addressed to the loud-mouth Ashanti regional NSS director followed a recommendation by the committee set up to probe the incident which caught the attention of the general public.
According to the letter, the Board of NSS, after intensively deliberating on the committee’s report, “unanimously adopted the recommendations proffered…”
“On that basis you are suspended for two (2) calendar months without pay,” it continued.
After the suspension he is to report to the head office to work under supervision.
Further, he is to issue an official apology to the National Service Scheme “for bringing the name of the scheme into disrepute.”
BACKGROUND
An audio went viral on both social and traditional media containing what was widely considered as verbal attacks on a female nurse at the Manhyia Hospital, by the Ashanti regional NSS director, Alex Opoku-Mensah, father of an in-house officer.
Words contained in the audio revealed Alex Opoku-Mensah, who happens to head a public institution, had followed his daughter to the hospital over work related issues.
Tempers flared up resulting in exchange of words most unprintable.
Many people who heard the audio opined the man could first address the issue, if indeed he had to, through management, instead of going all out on the nurse, who argued she was doing her job, and had no personal issues with his daughter.
