According to him, the government’s posture in addressing the unrests did not help but fuel the conflict, hence making it difficult for the labour unions to rescind their decision.
He chastised government officials for using intemperate words on the public sector workers who threatened to embark on industrial actions against the nation if their concerns are not addressed.
Reacting to the numerous strike actions by medical doctors and teachers in the country, the Minority leader said in an interview with Peacefmonline.com that excessive language used by government functionaries added salt to the injury of the doctors and the teachers.
However, commending the President for actively participating to ensure that the striking public servants resume work, he advised his appointees to take cues from his character in order to amicably solve the issue.
He also bemoaned the poor remuneration of teachers in the country and appealed to government to review their salary structure in order to boost their livelihoods.
“I think the people following him should take a cue so that we are able to manage this nation in a very tranquil manner,” he said.
He wondered why government would mismanage the nation’s resources when public servants are faced with challenges pertaining to their Single Spine Salary Scheme.
To him, the government should take the blame because it could expend a whopping amount of GHC 8 billion on other ventures but allocate less to the public sector workers.
“But if you look at government’s over expenditure amounting to about GHC 8.7 billion for 2012. How much of it is attributable to the Single Spine. It’s only GHC 1.9 billion, in other words, GHC 19 trillion,that is attributable to the Single Spine. What of the rest? What did the government spend the monies on? So, you cannot just blame on the Single Spine and say that, well everything, the economy is about collapsing because of Single Spine. That is a palpable untruth.”
He however expressed gratitude to the public servants for calling off their strikes and appealed to government to “jaw-jaw” with them in order to resolve the conflict.
“I’m happy though that the striking service providers are going back but I think that ultimately, it is better to jaw-jaw over these matters and find amicable solutions” to the problems, he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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