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NIA officers demand payment of
allowances.
Takoradi, Aug. 21,Ghanadot/GNA -
Personnel engaged in the just ended registration exercise of
the National Identification Authority (NIA) in the Takoradi
sub-metro, have called for the immediate payment of
allowances promised them without further delay.
They have also demanded that any deduction from the original
amount to be paid to them would not be countenanced and
would be met with “stiff resistance”.
Mr Emmanuel Mbiah, a registration officer and Mr Emmanuel K.
Jackson, an assistant registration officer complained
bitterly to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) over the continual
delay and said they would advise themselves if the
authorities fail to pay the allowances due them.
They said before they were contacted they were assured that
registration officers would be paid 150 Ghana cedis, while
assistants would receive 130 Ghana cedis, with the queue
controller taking 120 Ghana cedis.
However, they have been told that they would receive their
allowances short of between 24 and 30 Ghana cedis each, but
no explanations were given for the sudden change in the
allowances.
Mr Mbiah said: “We were supposed to be given an appointment
letter before the start of work explaining what was due us,
but “we were not given, but we sacrificed to work for our
nation”.
He alleged that the personnel worked under scorching sun,
without food or water.
“We have to sit all day and work, and after the exercise
look at how they are treating us,” he said, asking, “is it
fair”.
Also, Mr Mbiah alleged that personnel were not picked to the
various centres on time and that it made their work tedious
since there was often long queue everyday.
The 222 personnel for the programme are asking the
authorities to reconsider their decision and stop their
resolve to deduct between 24 Ghana cedis and 30 Ghana cedis
from their allowances.
In an interview with Mr Hayford Ampomah, Coordinator of the
NIA said, the allowances of the registration officers have
not been reduced as they were alleging.
He said each individual was supposed to receive 10 Ghana
cedis per day during the exercise, and since the exercise
lasted for 12 days in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, they
would be paid according to the number of days that they
worked.
He explained that registration officers who undertook the
exercise in the Central Region worked for 15 days and were
paid 10 Ghana cedis each per day.
GNA
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