Executive Director of the Northern Patriots in Research and Advocacy, Bismarck Adongo Ayorogo believes most of the top management staff at the Upper East Regional Hospital are complicit in the alleged theft of drugs.
Speaking in an interview on State of Our Nation, Bismarck Ayorogo said the hospital has put in place stringent measures that ensure accountability and check misappropriation of drugs thus, the theft could not have occurred without management noticing.
“All these things are documented, the invoices, the receipt, they are there. It’s system. So supervision is poor for one reason or the other”.
He suspects some of the top management staff may be involved in the stealing of the medicines or may have deliberately relaxed the measures for reasons best known to them.
“It’s premature to sit here and just rope everybody in but most of them, they are not victims. Most of them, they are accomplices”.
Mr. Adongo Ayorogo is, therefore, demanding a thorough investigation into the case as he believes such a probe will uncover all the big fishes, who, believes, are directly or indirectly involved in the drug stealing cartel.
“If we dig further, the number of shareholders that we will discover from this one will shock everybody. Let’s all support MWB to dig to the roots of this matter. You will be amazed with the personalities, the names that we will be getting from this investigation”.
Police, on August 4, arrested 3 staff of the Upper East Regional Hospital for their involvement in theft of government drugs after their cover was blown by Media Without Boarders.
A year long investigation by the media outlet discovered that Raheem Fasilat, a storekeeper at the hospital; Raymond Asoke, the hospital’s driver; Noeyelle Bridget, Assistant Dispensary Officer at the hospital’s pharmacy in connivance with others yet to be identified were allegedly stealing and smuggling drugs belonging to the hospital out of the region.
The investigators trailed Raymond Asoke to an unmarked house where he had gone to load the stolen medicines into a car and alerted the police leading to his arrest.
The other two were subsequently arrested and the drugs retrieved.
One of the management staff, who suddenly surfaced at the scene where Raymond Asoke was apprehended, was said to have almost moved to tears as he recounted how they have been receiving countless reports about the theft incidents for close to 2 years but could not take any action because they had no evidence.
But Bismarck Ayorogo said, “We don’t want this kind of crocodile tears kind of a thing”.
