Mr Kojo Poku, an Energy Expert has disclosed that workers should not be encouraged to resorting to the media to address challenges within their organisation. According to him, employees should rather focus on their delegated duties.
He further suggested that they channel their grievances to internal departments in their respective institutions for redress.
His comment follows concerns raised by workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana against their Managing Director in a statement.
Responding to this development, Mr Kojo Poku averred that the country shouldn’t countenance such outburst from the staff calling for the Director’s dismissal.
“What is surprising is that we have entertained this attitude where workers can now get up and issue a statement to the media calling for the removal of managing directors. I honestly think that we shouldn’t encourage that as a nation.
“Workers are employed to do their work, the MD has only been at ECG for two years. These senior workers and other staff members have been at the ECG for over twenty years. Some have been there for thirty years and every Ghanaian knows the service we get from ECG.
Private sector participation
Mr. Poku further called for private sector participation in resolving such challenges. He further revealed that such efforts in the past had yielded little results.
That notwithstanding, he justified some actions taken by the Managing Director of ECG in his management of the company. He further intimated that, the call for his dismissal smacks of a personal agenda.
“They serve Ghanaians; go around the country and ask anyone if the service they are getting from ECG is any better. That is why some of us are pushing for private sector participation; and these same union members will oppose to any private sector participation that the government will introduce.
“If you read the letter, they put out there, and you read section four of that letter, it says that ‘The Managing Director will bypass the structures to give instructions and most of the time threaten artisans, managers without due regard to their supervisors. A clear example was a when a meter reader was transferred from Swedru to Kpeve and Seven others from Hohoe to various places without recourse to the procedures as enshrined in the CA and the hierarchy.
“Well, for me that is what a Managing Director of a company should do. If you are a senior staff, a district manager or a regional manager and you are not making sure the right thing is done and the MD who the bucks stop with finds that there is something going on whether in Hohoe or Kumasi and acts, that is what he should do. So, for me these are frivolous personal agenda being put out there and as a country we should not entertain it.”
ECG workers demand dismissal of MD
On April 13, 2021, workers of the ECG called for the dismissal of their Managing Director Mr. Kwame Agyeman- Budu.
According to them, Mr Agyeman-Budu has shown a “lack of vision” for the company. Thus, they reckoned that this warrants his dismissal.
The workers also indicated that there are evidences of “misplaced priorities which has led to the unavailability of critical materials” in the company.
This, they revealed includes meters, service cables conductors, etc which has caused delays in delivering services to the public.
They further accused him of lacking appreciation of the duties and roles of his office.
“He is grossly deficient when it comes to matters relating to administrative and corporate governance”.
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