Clinton Health Access Initiative Dragged To Court

 A former employee of the Clinton Health Access Initiative Cameroon, CHAI Cameroon, whose name we got as Ivo Muabe Mbwoge, is reported to have dragged the company to court for what he termed discrimination against his person.

Ivo Muabe Mbwoge had worked with the said organization since 2016 without any worries until the arrival a new Acting Country Director, Dr Yauba Saidu, sometime in 2020 when his trouble started.

Mbwoge, who was operations manager, said he got worried about the management style of the Acting Country Director, which to him was unprofessional.

He cited an instance, where the boss started ordering him to send money unjustifiably to certain individuals, which he said he later discovered were the relatives of the new boss.

He narrates that the boss was misusing the organization assets as he constantly puts the company's Prado at the dispositions of his relatives while on mission and when he resisted executing such unethical orders, his trouble started.

Mbwoge said The Acting Country Director retaliated by making the working environment very hostile for him and started by taking away his functions and giving it to his subordinates without reasons and without any oversight from him as their manager.

Unable to bear this, Mbwoge said he sent a formal complaint to CHAI leadership, and an investigation was opened in that regard.

He said he was shocked at the end when a final report of the investigation was shared with him to discover that the organization addressed issues related to the abusive use of company assets and nothing was mentioned of his maltreatment by his boss.

Mbwoge said he found himself in “between the deep blue sea (CHAI) and the Red Sea (Country’s director).”

 Mbwoge added that as he was left under the mercy of the Acting Country Director by the organizations management, he was then removed from his position as Operations manager to entirely a different department.

“The sequence of retaliation continued to a point where I was reduced from a manager to an officer. Several attempts by the Acting CD to reduce my salary meet a stiff resistance from my person which made the Acting Country Director promised my termination well ahead of time. I lived this frustration until 2022 when the director finally fired me from the organization” he lamented.

Following this sequence of what he termed discrimination and retaliatory behavior carried out by CHAI as an organization and the country Director of CHAI, Mr Mbwoge is reported to have sued the organization and the first hearing was on Monday 8th of May 2023 at the Mfoundi High Court.

We are told that after both parties have appeared before the court, the judge adjoined the case to the June 12, 2023.

Ivo Muabe Mbwoge said he hopes to have justice following the trauma he went through due to discrimination and maltreatment from the organization, which believes in protecting its workers.

CHAI is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is aimed at saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low - and middle-income countries around the world.

The aim is to strengthen the government and private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems in the countries where they work.

The headquarters of this organization is situated in. 383 Dorchester Avenue. Suit 400 Boston USA and the main source of funding is from donors such as BMGF, Unitaid, and Gavi, the American cancer society.

Cameroon happens to benefit from the largesse of this organization with their office situated somewhere in Bastos.