Posted: Daily Guide |dailyguideghana.com
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
The chief security officer of the University of Ghana’s College of Health Sciences, Superintendent Issaka Sumaila Basintale, has been interdicted together with an administrative assistant, Iddrisu Bisantale, his nephew, for allegedly breaking into an office of an administrative officer.
Assistant Registrar of the college in charge of Public Relations, Perry Phillip Ofosu, confirmed the story to DAILY GUIDE and said the issue was under investigations and that he could say nothing more or less.
The interdicted chief security officer, who is a retired officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, was alleged to have engaged the services of the administrative assistant with the college, Iddrisu Bisantale, to remove and replace a medical report on his confidential file for him since he (Iddrisu) had direct access to the office of the Deputy Registrar of the college in charge of Human Resources, Peter Osei-Fosu.
Though Iddrisu managed to successfully remove and replace the old medical report of the chief security officer with a new one, in the absence Mr. Osei-Fosu who had traveled to his hometown, the issue somehow got to management.
Indications are that the chief security officer did not obtain his medical report from the Medical School Clinic as was expected but rather from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital’s Polyclinic and the Ridge Hospital respectively.
It is thus not too clear why he defied laid-down procedures to go for a medical examination and report from other institutions instead of the clinic of the Medical School.
Management has since set up a six-member committee which is chaired by Deputy Registrar of the Noguchi Memorial Institute, Mrs. Ama Akwaa to investigate the issue and submit a report with recommendations by August 30, 2010, to enable management to take a decision on the matter.
Under normal circumstance, sources say any staff of the college who intends to make any changes on his or her confidential file must do so with the direct consent and approval of the authorities concerned, with an application letter to that effect.
Meanwhile, the security officers at the college have asked for the dismissal of their chief since in their opinion, what he did amounted to compromising his position.
They have therefore sent a petition to the heads of the various institutions under the University of Ghana to cause his removal.