The District Manager of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) in North Dayi, Edem Sebastian, has denied reports claiming that the Member of Parliament for the area, Joycelyn Tetteh Quashie, was undertaking an initiative that appears to sabotage the President.

According to him, the reports are baseless.

He defended the MP, describing her as being of immense support to the constituency.

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"Those reports are completely misleading and should be ignored," he said. "Rather than sabotaging anyone, the MP has been our strongest supporter in our ongoing drive to register more residents onto the NHIS," he is quoted as saying by myjoyonline.com on November 11, 2025.

Sebastian, speaking on the initiative dubbed the Free Health Insurance Renewal and Registration Exercise, denied that it is the same as President John Dramani Mahama’s Free Primary Healthcare Agenda.

He explained that the MP’s initiative is a personal intervention aimed at supporting her constituents.

He added that after the district NHIA office appealed to stakeholders for help in achieving its annual target, the MP was the only one to respond positively.

"We started operations in July this year and are expected to register about 80 percent of the over 41,000 residents in the district," he noted.

"However, only a limited category of persons, referred to as indigenes, qualify for free registration, and that represents less than 40 percent of the population. The rest must pay before being enrolled, which has made meeting our target difficult."

Sebastian continued by highlighting some of the kind gestures and initiatives by Tetteh Quashie, including offering to cover the cost of free registration and renewal of health insurance for residents.

"Hon. Joycelyn Quashie offered to sponsor free registration and renewal for her constituents. This is not the first time she has done so," Sebastian revealed. "Even before our district office was created, she collaborated with the Kpando NHIA to register her people and personally paid for it," Sebastian said.

He added, "The newspaper didn’t attribute the allegation to anyone. That alone shows the story was fabricated. We have not received any directive from anywhere to register everyone for free, so the claim that the MP is rebranding a presidential initiative is baseless."

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Sebastian suggested that the publication might have been motivated by internal political rivalry, warning against dragging the NHIA into partisan disputes.

"I suspect this is an internal party issue," he said. "We are a state institution and must not be drawn into any political squabbles that could derail our work."

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