I’ve not ran away - Tepa Nursing Training Principal speaks

Dr. Victoria Amoah, Principal of the Tepa Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the Ashanti Region, has denied media reports she absconded from the school after being cited in a GH¢10 million financial scandal.

Reports were rife that the embattled principal and her accountant, Asamoah Richard were nowhere to be found when officials of the Bureau of National Investigations(BNI) stormed the school to summon them for further interrogation into the alleged scandal last week.

According to the report, the Dr Victoria Amoah since the issue was blown in the media has not reported to school but Asamoah Richard who was on campus on the said date mysteriously disappeared after being snitched about the presence of the security operatives.

The principal however stated that the claims are untrue and that she was on official duties in Accra with her assistant wondering why she would runaway from a mere allegation.

She also discounted reports she deliberately failed to honour summons by police in the area.

“I was in Accra to meet with the Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang-Manu when I read a report in the media that I have runaway. I also heard that it was when the BNI came to the school that I runaway. I want to say it is not true and at the right time I will let my lawyers respond to everything”, she disclosed.

The Principal and her accountant are alleged to be neck-deep in a massive rot of GH?9, 247,800 through admission in the health institution.

The two senior administrative members allegedly used fake receipts and invoices to milk the health institution during every admission yearly, accumulating to the stated amount.

The alleged corrupt practice began in 2011 two years after the college was established. A deep throat source within the management of the school and a teaching staff confirmed the corrupt practices of the two administrators with documents to back the claims.

Checks revealed that at least about 50 percent of past and current students on campus did not pass through any interview panel as prescribed by the ministry of health because admission into the school is being sold at a whopping GH¢1 3000.

The principal has also been accused by students of billing them with matriculation and medical exams fees before enrolment to the college without execution.