Pressure mounts on GBC Director General

?LOKKO MUST GO? ? HER DEPUTY ADDS VOICE TO HER REMOVAL

The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Miss Eva Lokko is coming under increasing pressure to quit after her deputy severely criticized her leadership.
In a document entitled Ten Months at the GBC: A personal Statement to the corporation?s Board of Directors and Executive Directors, the National Media Commission, the Minister of Information, the Chief of Staff at the Castle and the Director General herself published by the Statesman newspaper, Ken Amankwah Deputy Director General accuses his superior of incompetence and unprofessionalism claims that ?decay and decrepitude? is now becoming ?a feature of GBC? under Miss Lokko.
Amankwah?s criticism of Lokko comes barely a week after hundreds of workers of the state broadcaster staged an in-house demonstration to demand the removal of Miss Loko who they say is too heavy handed in her style of management and insensitive to the feelings of workers.
But prime on the list of sins against her according to the workers is the deduction of social security and tax deduction, staff salaries, promotions,, insurance policies for staff and staff welfare among others.
Amankwah?s criticism though is more scathing. In a six-page document, he accuses Lokko of acting as though ?she owns GBC and therefore all of us should become supplicants at her table.? He also says Lokko practices a ?micro management control culture, which is stifling creativity.?
This, Amankwah says includes a requirement at GBC that the Director General must be consulted before the smallest purchase is made and undermining of the authority of other members of parliament. Amankwah outlines several instances, which he claims lends credence to Lokko?s mismanagement of GBC.
?I thought it was a joke when the D-G said we should justify our demand for TV sets? Does it need any justification for to watch and evaluate our own programmes?? Amankwah wrote.
Miss Eva Loko, an information technology expert previously with the United Nations became Director General of GBC about two years ago. She has ruled the huge broadcasting house with an iron fist but her supporters say Miss Loko?s style is best suited for GBC where workers, like most state employees are not driven enough to produce their best and effectively do as they wish without any checks.
She has opted remain silent as the pressure for her removal from within GBC mounts.