National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo Mensah (retired), has taken a swipe at workers in the country whom he says consistently use strikes to get their concerns addressed.
He says the many strikes on the labour front is a sign of high level indiscipline in the country.
Speaking at the commissioning of a nine-classroom block he built for O’reilly Senior High School in Accra, Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah called for the suspension of salaries of such striking employees.
“As I walk in the sun here from morning till evening sometime I only drink orange juice to build a school for the future of our children. Then some teachers say that they won't teach them because they are on strike!. It is very sad that we toil with the future of our children,” he bemoaned.
The National Security Advisor said since the introduction of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), salaries of public workers have tripled and yet they are not grateful to government.
“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”.
Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah described the incessant strikes in the country as “indiscipline” and urged government to take immediate steps to address it.
“If you can’t sacrifice like what some of us have don’t then get out. If the kitchen is too hot for you, get out”.
Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah said until Ghanaians learned to sacrifice for the nation, Ghana will never develop.
