The National Health Insurance Scheme in the Asunafo North Municipality is meeting today to decide on what actions to take against the MP for the area who has failed to pay an amount of eight thousand Ghana cedis he owes the scheme since 2008.
Mr. Robert Sarfo Mensah registered over 700 of his constituents during the 2008 parliamentary campaign ostensibly to gain votes. But he has since failed to pay the amount.
The Municipal Scheme Manager of the NHIS, Mr. Edward Nkrumah says they are compelled to go public because the MP is proving difficult.
“The man is not ready to come and pay the money but we need the money,” he said.
The MP has written to the Asunafo north municipal assembly directing it to use part of his share of the Common Fund to settle his indebtedness to the Health Insurance Scheme.
But the Municipal Chief Executive, Mohammed Kweku Doku says he won't pay the money because the MP is been investigated for alleged misappropriation of his share of the common fund.
He alleged that Mr Sarfo Mensah collected monies, “spent the money outside the assembly, wherever he spent it no one knows whatever items he bought with state funds were not routed through government stores.”
The quoted what he said is an audit report saying the MP collected “some HIPC funds in 2009 and has misapplied the funds.”
He in view of these queries raised against Mr. Sarfo Mensah which were yet to be answered, the assembly will not commit any more funds to the MP.
Source: Joy News/Ghana
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