Youths of Bebuabie Community In Obudu LGA in Cross River State have blocked one Christiana Akeke, an outgoing Obudu Primary Health Care Coordinator, from attempting to steal equipment belonging to the primary healthcare centre.
The incident happened yesterday when Akeke was said to have arrived at the Bebuabie Primary Health Center with an official 18-seater bus belonging to Cross River State primary healthcare agency with a Toyota Hiace bus registered number CR 876 A0 1, and began to remove solar panels, beds and other valuables.
She claimed she was taking them for repairs without the consent of anyone in the community, including the resident nurse.
The officials in the centre suspected some unusual moves and intrigues; they alerted the security and youths of the community.
Information quickly spread, and she was accosted by the community youths who accused her of coming to loot the equipment.
They claimed she had taken away the solar panels, batteries and other electrical appliances provided for the PHC by the government some months earlier under the same guise and never returned them and vowed not to let her repeat the same.
One of the youth leaders, Ephraim Beteng, accused her of trying to cash out at the last minute by selling PHC equipment under her control as she approaches retirement from service.
Boateng mobilized other youths who accosted and disgraced her from the PHC facility.
Commissioner for Health Henry Ayuk commended the youth for helping secure the PHC properties.
He said the ministry had earlier set up the quackery task force to eradicate quacks in healthcare, whose tasks will also look at those pilfering hospital properties.
