Francis Asenso-Boakye, the member of parliament for Bantama, has refuted claims made by a protesting nurse against him.
The nurse claimed that Asenso Boakye told her and her colleague that if they were not going to vote in the 2024 election because of unpaid salaries, then they should stop.
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”.
However, in a quick rebuttal, Asenso Boakye has described the nurse’s allegation as false, baseless, and a deliberate attempt to drag his name into needless political propaganda.
On his Facebook page on Thursday, October 2, 2025, Asenso-Boakye wrote, “My attention has been drawn to a video circulating on social media in which a young lady, claiming to be a student nurse, alleges that during the election period she approached me over unpaid nursing trainee allowances, and I told her: “if she won’t vote because her allowance has not been paid, then that is fine.”
“For the avoidance of doubt: I have never had any such encounter or conversation with this individual, nor with any student nurse, regarding allowances,” he posted.
“There is no nursing training institution in my constituency, Bantama. While Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital has a nursing school, it does not fall under the Bantama constituency. I therefore have no direct constituency dealings with nursing trainees. In all my years of public service — as a legislator, a former Minister of State, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency — I have never been responsible for the administration of nursing trainee allowances, nor have I had any direct portfolio in the health sector,” he stated.
“This allegation is false, baseless, and a deliberate attempt to drag my name into needless political propaganda. I urge the public to disregard it completely. Anyone who knows the identity of the lady in the said video should kindly provide her details,” he added.
Meanwhile, 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.
See the post 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