An unpaid nurse has said the Member of Parliament for Bantama, Asenso Boakye, told her and her colleague that if they are not going to vote in the 2024 election because of unpaid salaries, then they should stop.
She further told the current government that if they are ready to pay their salaries, they should revoke their appointment.
Speaking to the media during the unpaid nurse protest, the nurse stated, “The government is not ready to pay our salaries; they would rather revoke our appointment so that we go home and find something better to do because we cannot be working on an empty stomach.
How do you expect me to reassure a client? On an empty stomach, where is the love to work? We can’t work diligently when we are hungry, so we are pleading with the government”.
She added, “I want to give some advice to all of us. I do not want to politicise anything, but there is this thing circulating. The moment it is about a nurse or a teacher the you hear one party say God is the one punishing us, all those of you saying that, congratulations to you and thank you.
We started school in 2017. Put your feet in our parents’ shoes, imagine that since 2017, I have been to school till now, no importance has come out of me, as I speak my NSS, I have not been paid”.
The nurse further alleged, “My area, the MP, told me that because of this money, if I do not vote, I should go and tell my colleagues that if they do not vote, they should stop. I can mention his name, Hon Asenso Boakye, the Bantama MP, he told me that”.
The nurse in a separate video further invoked curses on the government over their failure to pay their salaries after working for ten months.
She added, “May God punish any government and its entire generation that leaves nurses’ salaries unpaid and causes nurses to resort to prostitution for money”.
Another protesting nurse also warned the John Mahama-NDC government that a hungry nurse is a potential killer.
According to the nurse, the government must pay them now, as enough is enough.
He emphasised that to be a nurse in Ghana is not a crime and that Ghanaian nurses deserve better.
The nurse speaking to the media during the protest demanded, “A hungry nurse is a potential killer. Pay us now, we are dying. A hungry nurse is a potential killer. Pay us now, enough is enough. Is it a crime to be a nurse in Ghana? Nurses deserve better. Enough is enough”.
The Coalition of Unpaid Nurses and Midwives, yesterday, Thursday, October 2, 2025, staged a protest to demand their salary arrears owed by the government.
According to the nurses and midwives, about 7,000 of them have been working without salaries for the past nine to 10 months.
Meanwhile, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, the deputy finance minister, has told the Nurses and midwives that their salary arrears will be captured in the next budget.
He expressed gratitude to the nurses and midwives for their service and apologised for the delay.
Watch the video below:
“My MP, Hon. Asenso Boakye, told me that if my colleagues and I won’t vote because of our unpaid salaries, then we should stop.
— EDHUB🌍ℹ (@eddie_wrt) October 2, 2025
And if the current government is not ready to pay our salaries, they should revoke our appointment.”
– A nurse, who is part of a group of nurses and… pic.twitter.com/JDp3XqDWNm