The MD of Ghana Water Company, Dr. Clifford Braimah, has said calls for the removal of the board chairman of the company, Alexander Afenyo-Markin by a section of the workers is baseless and without merit.
Members of the Public Utility Workers Union of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Ashanti region started the protest for the immediate dismissal of their Board Chairman, and a Deputy Managing Director of the Company.
The workers displayed banners at entrances of the company in Kumasi, with inscriptions such as ‘Save Ghana Water Company Limited operations’ ‘Ghana Water Company Limited workers say Board Chairman must go’, ‘No to third deputy MD operations’ AND ‘Chop chop must stop now’.
They accused the board chairman of instigating the removal of the workers representative on the board and signing of cheques.
However, Dr Braimah has said the allegation is without merit and borne out of ignorance. According to him, a meeting was called with the workers union, the secretary general of the Trades Union Congress, the executive secretary of the State Enterprise Commission to resolve the issue.
“There are issues the workers raised and perhaps if we had engaged them earlier it wouldn’t have gotten to this level, first they spoke about the board chairman removing the workers representative on the board which was not the case, there was actually an anomaly and the board itself said let’s correct and they didn’t understand and they thought the board chairman was behind it, the person has since taken his seat at the board,” Dr. Braimah stressed.
On the allegation of cheques signing he said, “I as the managing director knows the board chairman has not signed any cheque, there is a general rule that anytime the managing director is not there, the deputy MD should not sign cheque above a certain threshold without recourse to the board.”
GWCL management will meet the workers on these developments to ensure industrial harmony.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
