Gov't communicators on strike

XYZ News has gathered that more than 40 members of the governing National Democratic Congress’ communication team are on an indefinite strike effective Tuesday July 9, 2013.

The aggrieved government communication team members declared the strike after a meeting in Accra on Monday.

They are grumbling over “poor welfare”, “neglect” and “abandonment” by the Mahama administration. Some of them told XYZ News anonymously that Ministers and Deputy Ministers are given more attention and taken better care of than the non-ministerial members who “do most of the communications for the Government”.

XYZ News gathered from its sorties that almost all the members of the Government Communication team were present at the meeting except Information Minister Mahama Ayariga and his two Deputies – Murtala Muhammed and Felix Kwakye Ofosu.

The angry communicators are demanding to meet President John Mahama to lay their concerns bare before him.

They claim they are forced to use public transport, locally known as ‘trotro’ to commute to radio and TV stations to defend the government while some of the ministers and government officials are seen “riding big cars with their girlfriends”.

One of them claimed he has been forced to “walk” to media houses on several occasions just to defend the government, but all his efforts, as well as that of his numerous other colleagues, have not inured to any personal benefits.