ECG Junior and senior Staff are up in arms over the planned extension of the contract of their MD Mr. Kwame Agyemang Budu whose retirement age was due in February 17th this year.
Addressing a news Conference in Accra on Tuesday (March 15,2022), the General Secretary of Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) of TUC Ghana, Mr. Michael Adumata Nyantakyi accused the MD of abysmal performance leading to the collapse of the state owned company (ECG).
According to him, the company has taken a nose dive in terms of infrastructural development adding that even stationary materials in the company is non existent.
General Secretary, PUWU of TUC Ghana, Mr. Michael Adumata Nyantakyi (middle) addressing the Media
Mr. Adumata Nyantakyi further emphasized that failure of the MD to ensure the reimbursement of statutory deductions from staff’s salary coupled with “one man show”, abuse of directors and shortage of ECG poles and cables necessitated the call by the NEC of the ECG senior staff to call for the MD’s contract not to be extended.
“The meeting further acknowledged that Mr.Kwame Agyeman Budu had finished his stewardship with ECG and think the appropriate and befitting thing to do is for him to retire honorably without inviting industrial disturbances and that the meeting rejected any imposition of Mr. Kwame Agyeman Budu on the ECG staff
The resolution intimated that any contract extension will not help sustain the current peaceful and congenial industrial atmosphere within the company”, the PUWU General Secretary stressed.
Charged Members of ECG junior and senior Staff
According to the Union, the continuous stay of the MD is further affecting the operation of the company hence the need for him to be replaced.
The Union therefore advised government to appoint a new MD to replace Mr. Kwame Agyeman Budu and give him ( the new MD) a target and Key Performance Indicators(KPI) in order to help reposition the company and make it more viable.
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