The decision by the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to transfer 216 of its district directors is to end alleged looting that has existed under their watch, the Organisation’s Deputy Coordinator Abu Ramadan has said.
All 216 District Directors of the disaster management body have been transferred en bloc from their current jurisdictions, Starr News has learnt.
The directors affected by the mass transfer have been given a week to report to their new locations or face sanctions.
One of the affected directors who spoke to Starr News on condition of anonymity said they suspect ill-motives in the action that has been taken by their management – a claim Mr. Ramadan strongly repudiated.
Speaking to Starr News Friday, Ramadan said the decision is aimed at halting the rot being supervised by the district directors who he stated were in acting capacity hitherto their transfer.
“In one of the Districts in Kwahu, we have a staff of NADMO who is no longer a staff of the Organisation…but yet still receives salary from NADMO as a public servant and he has mortgaged that salary against a loan that he has taken,” he told Starr News’ Daniel Nii Lartey.
He added, “And that salary is being paid at the end of every month and deduction is being done from it and the rest is disbursed among some people who are supposed to be validating him for his salary to come every month.
“So how do we continue to have staff who don’t work with the Organisation yet keep drawing salary and we have district directors who are unable to stop these sorts of conduct?”
According to him, the management of the Organisation thought that bringing in new people to head the district offices would give “us the neutrality we deserve so that when the forensic audit begins we will have neutral people in place to make sure that proper auditing is done and the result of it will come as a satisfactory results.”
“So, I don’t know what they mean by an agenda to victimize them. We are victimizing them,” he said.
Source: Ghana/StarrFMonline.com/103.5FM
