Koforidua, May 20, GNA-Workers of the Koforidua Office of Ghana Post on Wednesday staged a short demonstration in front of the Koforidua Post Office to demand the removal of the Board of Directors of the Company. The workers wearing red bands, drumming on empty jerry cans and holding placards, sang and danced in front of the post office with a rallying cry: "Sey must go!", "Sey must go!"
Meanwhile, red banners had been hoisted at the entrances of the main yard and the counters of the main Post Office while the staff wore red bands around their heads and arms.
Speaking to the media, the Chairman of the Local Union of the workers, Mr. Maxwell Kwakwa, explained that the demonstration was to demand for the removal of the current board of directors of the company because they do not have any progressive plan for the workers.
He said at the time that the new board was demanding the removal of the end of service benefit of the workers from their collective agreement due to the poor financial position of the company, the board was spending lavishly on managers of the company.
Mr. Kwakwa said the board had decided that members of staff who had gone on retirement should wait for two years before having their end of service benefits paid to them due to financial problems facing the company, yet the company had bought a car valued at GHC 130,000 for the New Deputy Manager in-charge of finance.
He said the new board had also hired a consultant at the cost of 50,000 dollars and initiated moves to have the logo of the company changed at a very high cost.
Mr. Kwakwa said the board claimed that the company was in financial crisis and indebted to Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security and National Insurance Trust when those funds had already been deducted from the salaries of staff and had not initiated any moves to hold the management of the company who were supposed to pay those money responsible for their action.
He said what the new board had done within the short period that it had been in office indicated that it had no good plan to change the fortunes of the company and therefore the workers were demanding their exit.
