The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has finally moved to sever relationship with the 31st December Women's Movement by removing from its payroll the salaries of 150 day care attendants directly affiliated to the Movement but drawing their pay from the AMA for the last 15 years.
According to The Ghanaian Chronicle story, the situation is seen as a grievous burden on the Assembly's budget since it was costing them around ?30 million a month, but shrouded in secrecy because of the circumstances surrounding how the affair developed.
From November this year, there will be no cash for the attendants, however AMA still faces the additional challenge of finding three months pay to give the 150 workers as severance benefits.
Legally, it appears the Assembly has been boxed in because they were under marching orders to hire them. Just under a month ago, the AMA formally found its voice and wrote to notify the DWM of its decision to cease the payment of the salaries.
The Assembly were tasked to do a proper headcount of the day care attendants in the city upon reports that ghost names had crowded the payroll, a phenomenon which had become prevalent especially in the in the Ministry of Education where the DWM had also penetrated and secured some of their key officials to work for the Nana Konadu-led movement.
