Mr Stephen Ashitey Adjei, Leader of some 3000 ex-workers of the Ghana
Ports and Harbours Authority, said the loss of President John Mahama in
the December 7 elections was self-inflicted.
He said the inability of his administration to pay the ex-workers their ex-gratia was a contribution factor towards his defeat.
Mr Adjei claimed that most of the personnel, their families and friends
voted against the President, whilst others cursed him out of
frustration.
A statement he issued in Accra noted that President Mahama would not
have lost the elections “if he had done the right thing by paying them
the monies due them ".
He said the workers had their severance benefits unpaid by government since they were retrenched in 2002.
Mr Adjei said in the course of the 14 years, they had appealed to both
the late President John Evans Atta Mills and President Mahama for the
injustice to be corrected.
He said Professor Mills issued a fiat that their benefits should be paid to them.
He advised the President elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo not to
repeat the mistake of President Mahama and expressed the hope that he
would expedite action on the payment.
“It’s been 14 years of suffering, pain and frustration, we hope
President Akufo Addo will be the one to end this injustice," Mr Adjei
said.
He said so far only five of the workers had been paid.
Source: GNA
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