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James Kwabena Bomfeh of the Convention People's Party (CPP) has condemned the Police for obstructing junior doctors at every turn at the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD).

The junior doctors were prevented by about 200 police personnel from entering the CAGD.

The doctors planned to occupy the CAGD to express their disgust over the department's failure to remit arrears to them.

They complain of not being paid for 10 months.

Speaking on "Kokrokoo" on Peace FM, James Kwabena Bomfeh expressed his frustrations over the action by the Police personnel stressing that State authority cannot become bullying machinery and used to intimidate citizens.

According to him, the junior doctors' action is right and so, they should have been allowed to enter the department to lay their concerns before the Controller and Accountant General who's in charge of remunerating them.

“The State authority cannot be used to bully the citizenry. [Kwame] I want to reiterate that the State authority can never be used to bully the people from whom and which that authority is derived.”

He further noted that "parents pay a lot of money to send their wards to school to turn out as doctors", therefore the government should not trivialize the issue.

He also advised government appointees not to abuse their public offices saying "because of clear failure of monitoring and supervision from those who have been elected into office to ensure that people do the right thing, when somebody is appointed into government office; the public is nobody...The public is…a non-existent entity. So you can do whatever you like and get away with it.”