Plot To Paint Former KATH CEO Black Uncovered.

On Wednesday, the 23rd day of July, 2025, this reporter stumbled upon information that some persons who are workers at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) were plotting to taint the character and image of the former CEO of the hospital, Professor Dr Dr Otchere Addai-Mensah.

The group, a source disclosed were predominantly medical practitioners who were disciplined by the former CEO for carrying out extortions and other unethical behaviours at KATH

Other members of the group, the source indicated were some elements within the Bantama branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) whose minds have been prepared to dent the image of the former CEO by bringing up issues that are false in the public domain so they could be recruited as staff of KATH.

Accusations:
Eavesdropping on the issues, the group is said to have planned to resurrect the ongoing Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) investigations about how funds were expended by two previous Chief Executive Officers having accesed same from an outfit by name ACESO in the USA.

Additionally, the group plans to accuse the former CEO for putting up a private building property in the space of two years when he occupied the space at KATH.

Background And Rebuttal:
In 2024, Prof Addai-Mensah was invited by EOCO to answer for an issue that concerned two predecessors who together with some management members had accesed funds from a US based outfit called ACESO.

As the substantive CEO then, Prof Addai-Mensah dutifully attended upon the EOCO probe despite having nothing to do with same since the issue predated his coming.

However, on the basis that he had been apprised with the issue, the former CEO attended upon the invitation and gave evidence.

Emboldened with the internal queries and subsequent findings he had made from investigations he had commissioned together with the Hospital Board and Management, Prof Addai-Mensah gave EOCO all the information they requested.

Building Project:
Checks undertaken by this reporter, reveal that in the two years as CEO, Prof Addai-Mensah carried out no building project either personal or whatsoever as speculated.

For emphasis, Prof Addai-Mensah, has for about of 23 years worked and earned salary after he completed Medical School in Ghana 🇬🇭.

This includes his four years of work and experience in Germany and a further two years of work in the United States of America 🇺🇸.

Returning to Ghana later, Prof Addai-Mensah has taught in Ghanaian Universities for 17 years with KNUST being the place he has mostly taught at.

Between 2016 and 2017, Prof Addai-Mensah started his first building project which took him about 8 years to complete.

He also has another building project at Tikrom near Ejisu, a project that took him about 10years before completion.

Laboured Attempts:
Meanwhile, a source says the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NDC is under pressure to find jobs for the party’s supporters.

And in the attempt to look for spaces for the supporters to work at KATH, there is an attempt to seek to dent the image of the former CEO and paint a picture the former CEO only recruited NPP members as staff.

The NDC Chairman’s plan together with the new CEO, a source hinted this reporter is to recruit more staff and pay them with internally generated funds (IGF).

Ironically, it was during the tenure of Prof Addai-Mensah where KATH recorded quadrupled figures as IGF.

The NDC groups, as at the time of filing this report, have caused to be published on Facebook false claims and information that the much publicised and patronised Heal Komfo Anokye Project (HeKaP), a renovation project aimed at making KATH four blocks a modern facility has been poorly managed.

Story By Michael Ofosu-Afriyie, Kumasi.