Celltel not crumbling - MD

The Management of Celltel Limited, a mobile phone service provider, said on Thursday that the company is growing under the congenial investor climate created by the government.

Mr Robert N. Palitz, Managing Director, told the press in Accra that an allegation in a Weekly that the company is disintegrating has no foundation, saying it is a calculated ploy to dent its image.

He denied also that he is an Israeli secret agent and said the mere fact that he was appointed to his post whiles working in Israel does not mean, "I am a secret agent. After all what interest will the Israeli government have in a small Celltel"?

He said employees are well motivated and are all discharging their work peacefully.

Confirming this, the General Secretary of Communications Workers Union

(CWU), Mr Anthony Dadzie said working conditions have improved since Mr Palitz assumed office.

"The least paid worker earns 800,000 cedis which is 60 per cent of the total wage bill of Celltel".

He said the union is currently negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the management.

He pledged the unions' support for the management in its efforts to make the company even more viable.