Reports reaching The Herald say that the Principal of Pantang Nurses Training College, in Accra, Madam Isabella Assan Laryea, has become a law unto herself in the running of the state institution.

Construction, repair works and purchase of vital gadgets for the running of the school, that will require going through formalities like competitive tender process are not adhered to instead the contracts are, awarded to her handpicked cronies to execute with an attendant price inflations.

A generator costing ¢700 million (GH¢70,000) which cannot provide electrical energy for the whole school except the administrative block is reported to have been procured. The generator which according to insiders was procured without the approval of the Regional Director of the Ministry of Health, is believed could not cost the taxpayer that much.

The Herald is informed that the Regional Director’s position on the purchase of the generator is that the budget for the running of the institution is inadequate to meet the cost of the generator, hence must it not be bought, but Mrs. Isabella Assan Laryea, ignored the directive and went ahead to purchase the generator.

The Herald, gathered that the Principal in collaboration with the Human Resource Manager at the Ministry of Health, Mr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, procured the generator.

Mr. Denkyira is reported to have also been awarded a contract for tiling the floor of the dining hall of the school by the principal at a cost still shrouded in mystery.

When The Herald went all the way to Pantang, which is on the outskirts of Accra, off the Aburi-Madina Road, to get some responses from Madam Laryea, she conceitedly refused to talk to reporters on this paper with the excuse that the school was on vacation, and until schools reopens she was not going to open her mouth on all the serious claims against her.

This paper has also gathered that admission to the school is not done on merit but through affiliation to a particular political party.

Meanwhile, investigations conducted by The Herald indicate that the principal’s apparent show of unilateral power is derived from her relationship with somebody at the Osu Castle, the seat of government whose name will be released in the subsequent editions of this paper.

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