VRA to sack 700 workers

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GHANABA 1 9 years ago

This is the sign of IMF Bailout.Ndc is killing Ghana.
Ghanaians should wake up now

This is the sign of IMF Bailout.Ndc is killing Ghana.
Ghanaians should wake up now
SEIDU JOHNSON GERMANY 9 years ago

MAHAMA AND HIS NDC KILLING GHANA. DEMONSTRATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION AND NOT ONLY THE VRA WORKERS BUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

MAHAMA AND HIS NDC KILLING GHANA. DEMONSTRATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION AND NOT ONLY THE VRA WORKERS BUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
ZoRRo 9 years ago

At a time when we need more hospitals, we are closing the VRA hospital ? Who are these stupid decision makers ?

At a time when we need more hospitals, we are closing the VRA hospital ? Who are these stupid decision makers ?
Gye Nyame 9 years ago

This is long overdue and this has nothing to do with IMF -- it is something that needs to be done. We need to slash our salary expense to a sustainable figure. Bravo to VRA!!!
No company notifies employees before pink slips ...
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This is long overdue and this has nothing to do with IMF -- it is something that needs to be done. We need to slash our salary expense to a sustainable figure. Bravo to VRA!!!
No company notifies employees before pink slips are handed out, so I don't understand the logic of the aggrieved workers. Socialism is not sustainable, capitalism works!
SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

All those who claimed to have voted and supported NDC that so-called political party, this should be a lesson to you all, come 2016 voted for them (NDC) again and you all will see your end.
NKWASEA FO.

All those who claimed to have voted and supported NDC that so-called political party, this should be a lesson to you all, come 2016 voted for them (NDC) again and you all will see your end.
NKWASEA FO.
Kofiko 9 years ago

Its time for all Ghanaians to learn from their mistakes and vote for Npp to come back to power again.Despire politicians in Ghana are all doing aluta, Npp was the best,the did well mentain the Socio- economic during their tim ...
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Its time for all Ghanaians to learn from their mistakes and vote for Npp to come back to power again.Despire politicians in Ghana are all doing aluta, Npp was the best,the did well mentain the Socio- economic during their time.The masses were not going through what they are going through today.I am independent.The two strong parties and all other parties should come together and help devolpe the great nation of ghana.All what we need is, the economic will be stable for the people of Ghana.Please let us all stop this insult's,it will help us.What we need is to work together.May
God help our nation,have mercy and bless Ghana.
Sir Pee 9 years ago

which idiot is this

which idiot is this
FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

Bold measures cannot be taken when we greet such steps with uncontrolled emotions. We cannot get further if we do not first think of the next generation and the country first.It will be advisable to cut the number of parlimen ...
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Bold measures cannot be taken when we greet such steps with uncontrolled emotions. We cannot get further if we do not first think of the next generation and the country first.It will be advisable to cut the number of parlimentarians and devoid of the non productive Deputy ministers.
Wisdom 9 years ago

Not Only VRA other Companies Will Follow.
My brother's Credit Union Is in Bankrupcy.
12 workers are to be off loaded.
One of them a 40year old man. I know he will commit suicide asa he hears the news

Not Only VRA other Companies Will Follow.
My brother's Credit Union Is in Bankrupcy.
12 workers are to be off loaded.
One of them a 40year old man. I know he will commit suicide asa he hears the news
Odurose 9 years ago

That really is the spirit. If the economy is in dire straits as has been touted and is manifestly the case then austerity is inevitable and this means a wave of redundancies and sackings especially in the over bloated public ...
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That really is the spirit. If the economy is in dire straits as has been touted and is manifestly the case then austerity is inevitable and this means a wave of redundancies and sackings especially in the over bloated public sector. We do not have to wait for the IMF to slam this down our throats. Our government have sown the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind.
SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

Ghana has not yet faced the IMF the dismissals has began, Senche economical form has opened the way, before the IMF set in, how many of the NDC foot soldiers loitering around the Jubilee House doing nothing and receiving fat, ...
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Ghana has not yet faced the IMF the dismissals has began, Senche economical form has opened the way, before the IMF set in, how many of the NDC foot soldiers loitering around the Jubilee House doing nothing and receiving fat, fat salaries would be dismissed, how many of the NDC Ministers enjoying fat, fat salaries, riding in Land Cruisers going up and down, AYIE, visiting their girlfriends with these cars at the expense of the Tax Payers, not paying for their petrol consumption, free rental accommodation, electricity, water and drawing many senseless allowances on
top are also going to be dismissed?

How many NDC crooks sitting in their
big big offices, doing nothing, enjoying air condition bringing no income to the State are going to sacked as well?

How many of corrupt Mahama's cleaners
ar also going to get their sack and how many of Mahama's girl friends who are receiving salaries but doing nothing for the Sate are also going to get sacked?

2016, vote for Nana Akuffo Addo and he will get back all the moneys NDC and their useless and idiots so-called
politicians has spent for free for us.
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EZEKIEL 9 years ago

WE ain't see nothing yet!! IMF operates SIMILARLY FOLKS. This is how the prescription will look like!!

WE ain't see nothing yet!! IMF operates SIMILARLY FOLKS. This is how the prescription will look like!!
Azonto 9 years ago

Ghana, where are we going this will affect all establishment in the country not only VRA, eh NDC we told u so.

Ghana, where are we going this will affect all establishment in the country not only VRA, eh NDC we told u so.
kill me 9 years ago

This is sad news but , we dont want dum-sue dum-sue. And we hope this is not political game .

This is sad news but , we dont want dum-sue dum-sue. And we hope this is not political game .
AKONFEM MAHAMA BAD LUCK 9 years ago

HMMMMMMM,GHANA FOR YOU OOOOOO OMAN GHANA,ED3 BII K3K3

HMMMMMMM,GHANA FOR YOU OOOOOO OMAN GHANA,ED3 BII K3K3
obroni 9 years ago

Ghana needs to become competitive and the economic problems will be over soon.
Its a national disgrace that Vodafone could turn Ghana Telecom profitable in a few years and we couldn't.
If we could have done that ourselves G ...
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Ghana needs to become competitive and the economic problems will be over soon.
Its a national disgrace that Vodafone could turn Ghana Telecom profitable in a few years and we couldn't.
If we could have done that ourselves GT could still be 100% Ghanaian owned.
Lets hurry up start working hard and create lean and mean companies to prevent them from being sold.
micky 9 years ago

Obroni I couldnt agree more. This no IMF bs...VRA is a power generator what is its business running schools, clinics and estate management services. It should concentrate on its core business of power generation and outsource ...
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Obroni I couldnt agree more. This no IMF bs...VRA is a power generator what is its business running schools, clinics and estate management services. It should concentrate on its core business of power generation and outsource/sell off all its noncore operations. They should do same with ECG, GhanaWater Company and GRIDCo, GNPC etc.....all the noncore businesses should be sold off. The next big decision should be the total privatization of these state entities. If Ghana did that in the telecoms sector why not Utilities!!!

The country needs to become competitive.
Energy Expert 9 years ago

Micky, I agree with your first part of your comment suggesting that non-core activities should be out-sourced but total privatization is not necessary. I think a good form private sector participation could be employed for no ...
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Micky, I agree with your first part of your comment suggesting that non-core activities should be out-sourced but total privatization is not necessary. I think a good form private sector participation could be employed for non-performing state owned utilities. I think VRA and GRIDCo are doing well.
FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

Micky you have made your mind which is good but your strange comments have been made by you who either haven't a clue what you are talking about or have not applied your brain to the propblems which could ensue.

Micky you have made your mind which is good but your strange comments have been made by you who either haven't a clue what you are talking about or have not applied your brain to the propblems which could ensue.
KWAA 9 years ago

This is the better Ghana,Ghanaians voted for.Let them enjoy it.

This is the better Ghana,Ghanaians voted for.Let them enjoy it.
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TALENT 9 years ago

I know this is one Seth Tekper's idea

I know this is one Seth Tekper's idea
FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

There is not enough talent to fill the Ghana Parliament.Well, I didn't vote NDC through 2012. Cut them loose - I can't wait. We'd never have another freeloading government, funding yet more freeloaders, importing yet more fre ...
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There is not enough talent to fill the Ghana Parliament.Well, I didn't vote NDC through 2012. Cut them loose - I can't wait. We'd never have another freeloading government, funding yet more freeloaders, importing yet more freeloaders, again. Cut them adrift.
afua 9 years ago

It is better to have fewer staff to do the same work, than having so many who sit and do nothing,but are paid every month.
There are too many staff in all department and agencies of Government which also need retrenchment

It is better to have fewer staff to do the same work, than having so many who sit and do nothing,but are paid every month.
There are too many staff in all department and agencies of Government which also need retrenchment
Obournana 9 years ago

You don't get paid when you do nothing. It is in the right direction. Cut the labour and increase their pay. A lot of Ghanaian labour are redundant doing virtually nothing on payroll. It is time for retrenchment. Management t ...
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You don't get paid when you do nothing. It is in the right direction. Cut the labour and increase their pay. A lot of Ghanaian labour are redundant doing virtually nothing on payroll. It is time for retrenchment. Management take decisions before they inform workers not vice versa. Who taught those noisy workers how management work. Do it before they collapse the country.
Foreigner 9 years ago

This is a bad headline. It sounds as though there will be 700 people out on the street. It's not the case. From other articles, these ancillary businesses/operations are being spun off onto their own. It happens ALL THE ...
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This is a bad headline. It sounds as though there will be 700 people out on the street. It's not the case. From other articles, these ancillary businesses/operations are being spun off onto their own. It happens ALL THE TIME in the West with companies that are getting into to many things.

I think this is a good thing. The cost of power production is clouded when VRA has so much non-power types of businesses under their umbrella.
JAMES Y 9 years ago

If only government can do what VRA is doing to put its house in order - retrenching its workforce and awarding short-term contracts when necessary - the fiscal situation of the economy will be the more better.

If only government can do what VRA is doing to put its house in order - retrenching its workforce and awarding short-term contracts when necessary - the fiscal situation of the economy will be the more better.
jk Atta 9 years ago

Government should zero tax all agric imputs and sack half the civil service and see how the economy will spring into action.

Government should zero tax all agric imputs and sack half the civil service and see how the economy will spring into action.
ANANE 9 years ago

The days should be gone when the Government hires everyone and those employees do nothing. They sit, chat, gossip, take bribes, work lotto numbers and get paid. If these companies are privatized the workers will be serious to ...
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The days should be gone when the Government hires everyone and those employees do nothing. They sit, chat, gossip, take bribes, work lotto numbers and get paid. If these companies are privatized the workers will be serious to work and Ghana will go through what is happening. When the Government ran the hotels they ran it in bankruptcy. But when it became private hotels they made money. Besides the ministries the Government should get out of all other businesses.
Emma 9 years ago

Hey please is better you layoff some the ministers rather.

Hey please is better you layoff some the ministers rather.
GOD HELP GHANA 9 years ago

ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT THEM!!!

We've been down this path before - and under P/NDC. In the 80s and 90s when Ghana's economic direction was in the hands of the old crook, Kwesi Botchwey, an IMF/WB operative. Over 300 enterp ...
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ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT THEM!!!

We've been down this path before - and under P/NDC. In the 80s and 90s when Ghana's economic direction was in the hands of the old crook, Kwesi Botchwey, an IMF/WB operative. Over 300 enterprises were "divested" by that other P/NDC crook, Totobi Quakyi, who made a gift of 2 factories to his bosses, the Rawlingses. Thousands of workers became "redundant", and since then hundreds of thousands of university graduates and others have found no employment whatsoever. The only jobs being created in Ghana are the political ones, which have been filled with all the old crooks who caused our unemployment in the first case!

We have learnt nothing, absolutely nothing or choose to forget! MAY GOD HELP GHANA!
Victor O. Adu-Gyamfi 9 years ago

Indeed, cut the fat with passion and then you can focus on your core business operations.

Indeed, cut the fat with passion and then you can focus on your core business operations.
Kwaame 9 years ago

So the VRA instead of focusing on power generation was actually interested in Real Estate, Akosombo International School and the Akosombo Hospital. What an inefficient allocation of personnel, misallocation of capital and hug ...
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So the VRA instead of focusing on power generation was actually interested in Real Estate, Akosombo International School and the Akosombo Hospital. What an inefficient allocation of personnel, misallocation of capital and huge waste of managerial resources.
San Antonio magarrieta 9 years ago

No problem about that but govt to ensure that everbody is given not less than 150000gh as compensation as well as their end of service benefit or face with full scale demo

No problem about that but govt to ensure that everbody is given not less than 150000gh as compensation as well as their end of service benefit or face with full scale demo
Antiochus - London 9 years ago

The IMF wind has started blowing!

The IMF wind has started blowing!
ANANSE KWAKU 9 years ago

All the 3 areas mentioned are potentially viable business projects. VRA should sell those businesses and let the new management maintain and retrain the existing Staff.
The hospital and the school should and will continue to ...
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All the 3 areas mentioned are potentially viable business projects. VRA should sell those businesses and let the new management maintain and retrain the existing Staff.
The hospital and the school should and will continue to operate. So why should the Staff be laid off?
Lord Tennison 9 years ago

Give them GENEROUS compensation to accommodate new skills acquisition so they will be able to contribute to our economic efforts.

Give them GENEROUS compensation to accommodate new skills acquisition so they will be able to contribute to our economic efforts.
Agbeli Kumordzi 9 years ago

VRA need to sacked more to improve
Also we need to close down all the embassies in Europe and keep only the
one in Brussels since European have one
nation.Ghana government need to do more to save money to keep the economy ...
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VRA need to sacked more to improve
Also we need to close down all the embassies in Europe and keep only the
one in Brussels since European have one
nation.Ghana government need to do more to save money to keep the economy running
jk Atta 9 years ago

Blame international monetary fund and this is just the beginning of the show.Those to follow will be the TUC strike leaders and their membership and nobody should then blame Mahama.If you want IMF money to push up your curren ...
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Blame international monetary fund and this is just the beginning of the show.Those to follow will be the TUC strike leaders and their membership and nobody should then blame Mahama.If you want IMF money to push up your currency instead of going to cultivate your farms to achieve the same, people must lose jobs, pure and simple.

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