PHOTO: Chief Inspector Henry K. Zaza crying his own cry
By Moses M. Tokpah, mosesmtokpah@gmail.com
KAKATA, Liberia- The Chief Inspector assigned at Police Academy Training School in Monrovia, Henry K. Zaza says he has been marginalized and neglected by the Liberia National Police in general and the National Police Academy and Training School in particular where he has been assigned since 2007.
Inspector Zaza, explaining his ordeal to www.newspublictrust.com recently in Kakata in tears, disclosed that he fell off on September 18, 2020 with a severe pain in his leg and was rushed to the ELWA Hospital outside Monrovia, where Doctors did not diagnose any illness.
He said on September 20, 2020 one deputy commissioner at the National Police Academy and Training School took him to Bardnesville where his mother lives at which time he was taken to sick bush adding that he was undergoing traditional and medical treatment repeatedly.
The senior police officer intimated that since then he has been struggling with his health from one hospital to another without a single medical slip used or single call from the human resource department at the Police Academy to follow up on his health even though his wife went to the Academy for medical slip. And through the instrumentality of one female assistant commissioner of police she was given one medical slip valued at US$35.00, which he did not use. This was because the X-ray he did at the Benson Hospital was valued at US$50.00 and he was told that the slip does not cover X-ray.
“The Deputy Inspector General of Police for Training and Manpower Development and the Female Assistant Commissioner of Police are the Senior Officers in the Liberia National Police that have shown concern for me since I fell sick,” he told this Reporter.
However, this news outlet has so far not been able to independently verify this.
But Inspector Zaza added that he has spent more than US$3,500.00 for his health without a single medical slip been used except his family members, relatives and friends.
He said the only thing the human resource manager at the Police Academy can offer him is to mark him absent from duty without leave in line with a policy that cannot be adequately defined justifiably by all, but base on friendship and paternity in his opinion.
Meanwhile, Police Inspector Zaza has vowed to go on hunger strike, due to what he termed as the level of marginalization.
Since 2007, he has been in the employ of the Liberia National Police, mainly assigned with the National Police Academy and Training School.