The Non Gazetted Employees Association (NGEA), through a press release, has condemned the police action wherein posters of their protest were removed from the walls of the GHADC office in Tura.
The NGEA stated that their protest was against the non-fulfilment of promises made by the Chief Executive Member.
“The CEM repeatedly assured us in April that monthly salary would be paid on a regular basis within three months, we would not be harassed and no member of the NGEA would be terminated. We are very disappointed with police action yesterday,” said the NGEA.
The latest protest continued for a third day today despite the Principal Secretary warning the protestors that they would be docked pay for not reporting for work.
“We were protesting for our rights peacefully so the action of the police is arbitrary and illogical. We have not resorted to any violence, harmed or damaged anyone. We also have children and family to feed like those police personnel who came and removed our posters,” the NGEA said, adding that the police would have acted similarly if they were deprived of salaries for three years.
On the issue of the Principal Secretary’s order yesterday that directed employees to rejoin work, the NGEA felt that the GHADC authorities have sufficiently punished them by not paying salaries for the past three years.
“We are not demanding that they should pay for the period of our agitation and threatening us to do away with our service is nothing new,” they asserted.
