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Three health bodies, including a regulator, have assured Ghanaians that they will not shield Dr Sulley Ali-Gabass from any legal process being pursued by mandated constitutional bodies in his alleged sodomy case. A statement jointly signed by the President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Kwabena Opoku-Adusei; the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, and the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), Dr Eli K. Atipui, and issued by the three bodies said the institutions would not only conduct thorough investigations into the allegation but also feed the public with the outcome of its investigations. �Assurance is being given to the public that the matter will be thoroughly investigated and the outcome of any decision thereof will be made known to the public,� it noted. Transfer Meanwhile, Dr Ali-Gabass, who stands accused of sodomising a 16-year-old senior high school student, has been transferred from Takoradi to Accra to assist the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service in its investigations. This follows the dispatch of a team of investigators from Accra to Takoradi to begin investigations into the case. Before he was transferred to Accra, Dr Ali-Gabass had reported himself to the Western Regional Crime Officer, in the company of two of his lawyers and a colleague doctor, representing his employers. Denial The suspect was said to have denied the allegation during interrogation by the regional team of crime investigators and rather claimed that he had been offering financial assistance to the boy. �I must say that issues the police intelligence gathered were put to the doctor but he has denied all, saying the boy was his friend alright and that he had not had any such unnatural canal knowledge of the boy,� the Deputy Western Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr Takyie Poku, told the Daily Graphic. He said the suspect had comported himself throughout the interrogation. Sympathy Before the suspect could arrive at the Western Regional Police Command, some young Muslims and other respectable members of the Muslim community in the region had been at the command to lend their support. Although they were not allowed into the room where Dr Ali-Gabass was interrogated, they waited patiently until he was whisked off to Accra about 4.30 p.m.