Chop Chop At Manya Krobo NHIS
DAILY GUIDE has learnt that staff of the Lower Manya Krobo district office of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) are engaged in fraudulent and underground dealings which are causing financial loss to the state.
Two employees, Ben Osanyongmor, a photographer and Eric Ngmertey, an office assistant, have been caught for using their positions to perpetrate the alleged fraud and in the course amassing wealth.
A source said that after their dealings had been uncovered, a report was made to the Odumase-Krobo police but the management quickly went and pleaded with the police to let them deal with the matter 'at their own level and prescribe punishment for the perpetrators'.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that the district manager, Andrews Odonkor, feared that if an investigation was to take place, more of such fraudulent activities could be discovered and that could cost him his job, therefore he proposed to handle the case internally.
According to sources, Ben and Eric had been printing fake NHIS cards bearing the signature of the district manager and distributing them to unsuspecting applicants.
The source said that about three months ago, the two went to their usual expert graphic designer at Agomanor in the district to print 55 fake NHIS cards.
The graphic designer was only identified as Lawer.
The source explained that Lawer, after completing the work, parcelled the cards and gave them to a taxi driver to be delivered to them at their office as he also had somewhere to go to.
Unfortunately, when the parcel was delivered, neither Ben nor Eric was in the office and when the parcel was opened, the 55 fake cards were discovered, arousing suspicion among the workers.
The district manager, sensing danger, reported the matter to the police but later went and pleaded with them to let the office deal with the matter at its own level.
Lawer was initially arrested and he mentioned Ben and Eric as the ones who gave him the work to do for them.
The graphic designer is alleged to have told the police that he had been printing similar cards for two people for the past three years.
Sources told DAILY GUIDE that Ben Osanyongmor allegedly owned a VW Passat with registration number GE 830-09, as well as a mansion at Nuaso New Town.
The District Commander of Police, DSP Douglas Kumah, confirmed Lawer's arrest, saying that the NHIS management who reported the case had come to plead for the matter to be dealt with privately.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that the two suspects, Ben and Eric, had been officially suspended from their work.
From Thomas Fosu Jnr, Odumase-Krobo