Awuni Akyireba: High Court dismisses KATH whistleblower’s wrongful termination suit

A Kumasi High Court has dismissed the case brought before it by Awuni Akyireba, an accounts officer at the Biostatistical Unit who was sacked by the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, KATH, after accusing management of blowing COVID-19 cash donations.

Akyireba filed an order of Certiorari at the High Court seeking to quash the decision taken by KATH on December 20, last year, after a Disciplinary Committee found him guilty of violating the hospital’s code of conduct although he failed to appear before it to substantiate his claims, despite several invitations.

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Delivering its verdict, the Justice Ali Baba’s Court ruled among others that the suit was “unmeritorious”.

The court also established that Mr. Akyireba

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