The
Former National Youth Organizer of the Convention People's Party (CPP),
James Kwabena Bomfeh has expressed disappointment in the National
Security Advisor, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo Mensah (retired) over
his recent comments regarding strike actions by public sector workers in
the country.
Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo Mensah (retired) lashed out at the workers for consistently using strikes to back their demands.
In
his view, the strikes on the labour front are a sign of high level of
indiscipline in the country and so, speaking at the commissioning of a
nine-classroom block he built for O’Reilly Senior High School in Accra,
he called for the "suspension of salaries of such striking employees."
He asked the workers who can't contain the heat in the labour front to be shown the exit.
“If
you can’t sacrifice like what some of us have done, then get out. If
the kitchen is too hot for you, get out,” he blurted out.
He
further stated that since the introduction of the Single Spine Pay
Policy, salaries of public workers have tripled; yet, they have failed
to show gratitude to the government for its interventions.
“Every
Tom, Dick and Harry gets up and is calling for a strike. If you don’t
want the job Ghana is not a police state, take your passport and get out
of this country."
Addressing the issue on Peace FM's flagship
programme "Kokrokoo", James Kwabena Bomfeh, also called Kabila, held
strongly that the National Security Advisor’s remarks are intended to
incite people against the government.
According to him, such remarks suggest that the government should be overthrown.
This,
he continued, is because since the inception of the Mahama
administration, there have been no improvement in the socio-economic
fabric of the country.
“The government has failed woefully and cannot remedy the challenges confronting Ghanaians,” he asserted.
Expounding
further the failures of the incumbent government, Kabila averred that
“Ghana is facing three evils. Firstly, along the lines of racism is
ethnocentrism…But to use it to vilify somebody, to torment somebody, has
gained roots in this nation; leadership should stand up against it. The
second thing is a visionless leadership which is also irresponsible:
Failure; clear failure in leadership. The leaders have failed that today
we have no standard. The third and the last evil is a departure from
our core values.”
To him, the critics will not stop venting their
spleen on President John Mahama until he put measures in place to end
the plight of the Ghanaian citizenry.
“As for the complaints, Mr.
President, I’m sorry to disappoint you. We won’t stop today; we won’t
stop tomorrow so long as you’re leading this country into an abyss.”
The measure of performance under the Mahama government, he added, has now turned out to be "who has done worst" in government.
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