General
Secretary of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah has
expressed disgust over the comments by the National Security Advisor
that the salaries of striking public sector workers in the country
should be suspended.
Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah, addressing
the issue of industrial actions on the labour front, told them to pick
up their passports and leave the country if they cannot cope with the
current economic situation.
He also blurted out that the workers
who cannot withstand the "kitchen heat" should "get out" because "Ghana
is not a Police State."
But speaking on Peace FM, Bernard
Mornah decried such remarks, stating emphatically that government should
resolve the conflict on the labour front so as to end the threatening
strike actions by workers in the nation.
“I don’t think for what
you cannot afford. If government indeed did these negotiations with the
workers, then they have a claim that, look, what we have already
discussed with you; you have to pay and if you’re not paying, then it
must not be that we should pick our passport and walk out of this
country. That cannot be,” he said.
He further questioned the
logic in the comments made by the National Security Advisor, saying “it
didn’t matter whether you’re contributing, that you’re helping to
enhance people’s acceptability or acceptance into education. But the
school that you’ve helped put up, if the teachers don’t go and pick up
their passports and leave (the country); will the classroom teach the
students? Will the school block teach the students? Or we’re going to
return to those days where we sacked teachers and bring in military men
to come and teach; and teach what?”
He therefore found it
distasteful for him (Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah) to posit that Ghanaian
workers should leave their country in the wake of the economic pressures
confronting the labour front.
“This is our country. We have to
live and tell our government that things are not well. And it’s the
responsibility of government to make things better for us. So, I think
that the statement by General Nunoo-Mensah was totally uncalled-for," he
insisted. |
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