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The Trade Union Congress (TUC) is asking government to stop using COVID-19 as an excuse and review the salaries of workers upwards to help them deal with the recent economic hardships in the country.
Organized labour says recent fuel increments, coupled with the skyrocketing prices of goods and services, are taking a toll on the Ghanaian worker.
The call was made in Koforidua on May 1, during the Eastern Regional May Day Celebration under the theme “Economic recovery in an era of COVID-19: The role of social partners.”
The Eastern Regional Chairman of TUC, Augustine Micheal Owusu, demanded an increase in the salaries of workers to match the high cost of living.
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Professor Ransford Gyampo, an associate professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana has dismissed claims suggesting the country has returned to the “culture of silence”. He was reacting to comments made by business mogul Sir Sam Jonah that the country has gradually slipped back to the era where citizens could not speak truth to power.
“It appears to me that the culture of silence has returned. This time not to be enforced by legal and military power but through convenience, parochialism, hypocrisy and lack of conviction. Where are our Adu Boahens and PAV Ansahs?” Sir Jonah asked.
Ing. Dr Nana Ato Arthur, Head of Local Government Service said there is the need for local authorities to constantly engage and dialogue with stakeholders through every available avenue to engender trust and confidence.
He said it was important to draw stakeholders’ attention to the mandate of Regional Coordinating Councils (RCCs) which appears to be very limited, given modern day dynamics of Local government administration.
Dr Ato Arthur said this at the maiden conference of Regional Minister, Regional Chief and Coordinating Directors and Deans’ of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chiefs from the various regions.
The two-day conference, which is on the theme: “Deepening Decentralisation and Local Governance for Accelerated Development in Ghana: The Role of Key Stakeholders,” is to take the participants through Ghana’s Decentralisation policy document and how to achieve the document targeted goals.
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey has disclosed that his cabinet is documenting an Accra Bible which will serve as a policy guide to his successors and people living in the capital.
The Ayawaso Central MP admonished that although his predecessors have done their best in solving issues, their failure to pass on their ideas to their successors is a challenge in making Accra work.
According to the Minister, the Accra Bible will help solve the institutional gap which does not aid in implementing policies to help develop the capital.
“I’m putting up a think-tank team that will come up with what I call the Accra Bible so that it’s not going to be like there used to be an ET Mensah or Adjiri Blankson, he did his best but he is gone,” Henry Quartey stated in an interview sighted by Ghanaweb.