TUC sat down whilst the ndc was wasting our money thro dubious jdebts by using criminal attorney generals who saw nothing wrong with paying out 84 million euros to CP, 45 million dollars to woyome, over 40 million dollars to ... read full comment
TUC sat down whilst the ndc was wasting our money thro dubious jdebts by using criminal attorney generals who saw nothing wrong with paying out 84 million euros to CP, 45 million dollars to woyome, over 40 million dollars to waterville, building 6 classroom blocks at a cost of over 300,000 ghc instead of the npp's 80,000 ghc, sole sourcing of contracts instead of competitive bidding to achieve value for money,.....small boy ablakwah was even asking for 1.5 billion dollars for africa automobile ...gyeeda, sada, rlg,....the list can go on and on and on and on......ALL THIS WHILE, THE TUC WAS NOT CHALLENGING GOVT TO QUIT THE SENSELESS USE OF OUR MONEY......now look at the mess that the govt has caused us as NHIS IS FAST COLLAPSING OTHER STATUTORY PAYMENTS CANT BE EFFECTED....what was the tuc thinking when govt was creating 45 new constituencies with the accompanying cost burden......THE TUC SHD ADD THEIR VOICE TO THE RUNNING OF THE COUNTRY INSTEAD OF SITTING DOWN FOR CRIMINALS TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY BEFORE ASKING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE.....NDC GOVT IS SIMPLY NOT READY TO RULE GHANA, THEY ARE RATHER READY TO CREATE LOOT AND SHARE IRRESPECTIVE OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRY.....ide biiiii keke..
TT Addo 10 years ago
You have said it all, Vida
You have said it all, Vida
Joe 10 years ago
But we have oil now, so what is the Problem?
But we have oil now, so what is the Problem?
Philip Kobina Baidoo 10 years ago
Joe, the oil we have now is not under the control of the government.
Joe, the oil we have now is not under the control of the government.
Ebuei 10 years ago
Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, the millstone that is drowning the country is the creation of more civil service post to absorb party functionaries that we can do without. For example, the new 45 constituencies and di ... read full comment
Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, the millstone that is drowning the country is the creation of more civil service post to absorb party functionaries that we can do without. For example, the new 45 constituencies and districts were created last year when the debt burden was still climbing, besides knowing that our revenue base was equally not expanding in real growth terms. This is the cold heart incompetence of our leaders. The idea was proposed under Mills before he died. He did not object to it, and Mahama came and went along with it. Just sit back and calculate how much 45 new MPs and funding 42 new district offices and staff will cost. This is the killer poison that has been shoved down our throat. Our leaders should have spared us this banana republic idea, and everything could have been hunky-dory.
Michael 10 years ago
Your analysis of the situation is right and until we all agree that we have a responsibility to move the nation forward, we will run in circles. Our planning is very poor and short sighted because of the 4 year cycle of vote ... read full comment
Your analysis of the situation is right and until we all agree that we have a responsibility to move the nation forward, we will run in circles. Our planning is very poor and short sighted because of the 4 year cycle of votes. We cannot develop if 70% of our revenue goes to pay public servants. As the writer rightly said, more civil servant posts are being created by increasing the number of Districts and constituencies when we cannot to sustain them. Let us cut our coats according to our size.
Bfire 10 years ago
The TUC should research to find out from other economies why energy bills are going up and is not Ghana alone. In UK energy bills are being increased by all the energy companies and winter is coming and at the same time wages ... read full comment
The TUC should research to find out from other economies why energy bills are going up and is not Ghana alone. In UK energy bills are being increased by all the energy companies and winter is coming and at the same time wages are not going up. Certain policies are necessary evil, government hands are thigh. Let us be careful with our stands.
Janet - Accra 10 years ago
How can TUC fight its own members. VRA, ECG, GRIDCO and WATER company are all members of the TUC. Their workers contribute to the survival of the TUC. How can you fight workers who pay monthly TUC dues. Do you want them ou ... read full comment
How can TUC fight its own members. VRA, ECG, GRIDCO and WATER company are all members of the TUC. Their workers contribute to the survival of the TUC. How can you fight workers who pay monthly TUC dues. Do you want them out of job. I don't think TUC is being fair to these Utility companies.
Kwame 10 years ago
I worked in the Ghana civil service for 15 years and I am well aware that both civil and public servants are needed were they are but the problem is that are they patriotic enough and ready to make changes and innovations tha ... read full comment
I worked in the Ghana civil service for 15 years and I am well aware that both civil and public servants are needed were they are but the problem is that are they patriotic enough and ready to make changes and innovations that will be to the benefit of Ghana and themselves.
There are civil servants in the energy sector and what are they doing to implement the use of cheap sources of producing gas and electricity. It is a fact that some of those people wrote thesis on power and gas production, but how are they seeing to it that their ideas are not only on paper, which may by now being turned into ashes.
There are ministries for all the sectors of human endeavour in Ghana and what part are civil and public servants in those sectors playing to enhance the socioeconomic development of this country.
A laptop computer costs less than a thousand and five hundred Ghana Cedis and a printer less than two hundred and fifty Ghana Cedis but a visit to most departments in the ministries reveal that people are still using old and dilapidated typing machines to perform their duties.
Even when our courts are said to be automated documents are still prepared with old machines. I came from an area that is surrounded by rivers yet the colonial administration did not provide the crossing of the rivers by teachers and medical officers and the same remains after many years of independent. If a road to an area become unmotorable the people in that area can not move because for all these years our civil, public servants and mostly people who hold political office who get some profit on the importation of vehicles and fuel have not thought having any alternative to motor vehicle transport, when the condition and the environment is conducive for the breading of animal that can be used to transport food stuff and other products to and from the villages.
I have made it a point that just to criticize people without offering a solution is like knocking the head of a person who is already dizzy.
One of the draw back by civil an public servants is the way and manner doctors, nurses and other health worker are managing the National Health Insurance Scheme. We are told most of the time that drugs on the NHIS list are none available, but a look on the cartons of the drugs in the wards reveal that they are manufactured in India, which means that they are generic drugs.
There is also a case of people in position not willing to learn. A case in point in 1983 was that two of my friends were refused appointment in the civil service just because at the interview at the Public Services Commission they said that they studied the manufacture and repair of internal combustion engines, when to my understanding only steam engines are not internal combustion engines.
A deputy minister said an agricultural mechanic can not become a pilot, when I am well aware that the manufacturing and repair of agricultural aircraft is the duty of an agricultural mechanic.
Why should villages with KVIP buy fuel of all sorts to cook their food and what are our experts who only criticize others doing about it. A professor in engineering still goes to his village in an engine powered by crude oil fuel, when there are palm kennel seeds rotting in his village.
I have decided since ten years ago not to use water to clean myself when ever I attend nature call to save my self from buying tissue paper, which we do not produce but import. I have also noticed that our artists are happy to promote foreign rice on our market, but they are Ghanaians and not foreign materials.
AYAARE ASOYIRE 10 years ago
Toothless bull dogs and hipocrates of the highest order, the TUC were a party to the delebrations on the tarrif proposals. What input did the TUC make then only to turn round and make these noises.Whatever master that the TUC ... read full comment
Toothless bull dogs and hipocrates of the highest order, the TUC were a party to the delebrations on the tarrif proposals. What input did the TUC make then only to turn round and make these noises.Whatever master that the TUC may be serving should be aware that the TUC picks their pay cheques from these same utilities that they are figting,or are the water and electricity companies no more part of TUC?
Amina 10 years ago
50% CONNECTIONS ARE ILLEGAL AND NOT PAYING FOR ELECTRICITY/WATER. PLUS 20-30% WHO ARE EXEMPTED FROM PAYING UTILITY BILLS. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
50% CONNECTIONS ARE ILLEGAL AND NOT PAYING FOR ELECTRICITY/WATER. PLUS 20-30% WHO ARE EXEMPTED FROM PAYING UTILITY BILLS. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
TUC sat down whilst the ndc was wasting our money thro dubious jdebts by using criminal attorney generals who saw nothing wrong with paying out 84 million euros to CP, 45 million dollars to woyome, over 40 million dollars to ...
read full comment
You have said it all, Vida
But we have oil now, so what is the Problem?
Joe, the oil we have now is not under the control of the government.
Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, the millstone that is drowning the country is the creation of more civil service post to absorb party functionaries that we can do without. For example, the new 45 constituencies and di ...
read full comment
Your analysis of the situation is right and until we all agree that we have a responsibility to move the nation forward, we will run in circles. Our planning is very poor and short sighted because of the 4 year cycle of vote ...
read full comment
The TUC should research to find out from other economies why energy bills are going up and is not Ghana alone. In UK energy bills are being increased by all the energy companies and winter is coming and at the same time wages ...
read full comment
How can TUC fight its own members. VRA, ECG, GRIDCO and WATER company are all members of the TUC. Their workers contribute to the survival of the TUC. How can you fight workers who pay monthly TUC dues. Do you want them ou ...
read full comment
I worked in the Ghana civil service for 15 years and I am well aware that both civil and public servants are needed were they are but the problem is that are they patriotic enough and ready to make changes and innovations tha ...
read full comment
Toothless bull dogs and hipocrates of the highest order, the TUC were a party to the delebrations on the tarrif proposals. What input did the TUC make then only to turn round and make these noises.Whatever master that the TUC ...
read full comment
50% CONNECTIONS ARE ILLEGAL AND NOT PAYING FOR ELECTRICITY/WATER. PLUS 20-30% WHO ARE EXEMPTED FROM PAYING UTILITY BILLS. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
That's a good point, Amina.
Heartless politicians