By Benjamin Akoto, GNA
Yamfo (Ahafo), Dec. 15, GNA – The Yamfo community in the Ahafo Region has temporarily closed all community-owned infrastructure at the College of Health, Yamfo (CoHY) in protest over the planned transfer of the Director Dr Mohammed M. Ibrahim.Â
The closure, according to a source, occurred in the evening of Saturday , December 13, 2025, affecting key facilities including the administration block, Nana Ansah Adu-Baah III hall, NADeF three-Storey building, academic block and two lecture halls.
The intervention of Mr Pius Opoku, the Municipal Chief Executive for Tano North and Police personnel, was required to reopen the facilities on Sunday, December 14, 2025, allowing for the resumption of academic activities.
This incident marked a serious escalation in the ongoing impasse between the Traditional Council, the community and the Health Directorate over the planned transfer of the CoHY Director, Dr Dr Mohammed M. Ibrahim.
The Traditional Council is now taking drastic action following a recent press conference to disrupt the transfer.
The action was preceded by a letter, dated December 12, 2025, from Nana Ansah Adu-Baah III, Omanhene of the Yamfo Traditional Area to the Minister of Health expressing the Traditional Council and the people of Yamfo deep anger and threatened to reclaim all Yamfo-owned infrastructure within 48 hours if the Ministry failed to rescind its decision to transfer Dr Dr Ibrahim.
The facilities cited for reclamation included the Administration block, Nana Ansah Adu-Baah III Hall, the NADeF three-Storey Building (21 Lecture Halls), the Academic block, two long lecture halls, and the Director’s official residence.
According to the Council, these buildings were constructed entirely by the Yamfo community and the NADEF initiative, without any financial contribution from past and present governments.
The letter further stated that failure by the Ministry to immediately reverse course and enter into meaningful dialogue with the Yamfo Traditional Council within 48 hours of receiving the notice would be interpreted as a willful and final act of contempt for traditional authority and communal ownership.
Consequently, the Ministry would be required to evacuate all its assets from the premises within the same period, with non-compliance leading to the indefinite enforcement of the decision.
The Council asserted that the action, deliberate, lawful within their custodial authority, and made irrevocably necessary by the Ministry’s persistent arrogance, unilateralism and refusal to accord Yamfo the respect owed to the host community that built the institution.
The letter conveyed the unanimous opposition of the Chiefs, youth and people of Yamfo to the imposition of Dr Christopher Beyere on Yamfo land, now or in the future.
It warned that any attempt to impose him might lead to disturbances, especially given a previous attempt to forcibly take over the College involving “machomen and a taskforce” surrounding the administration block during an earlier attempted handover.
GNA
Edited by Regina Benneh/Christian Akorlie