Discuss workers propensity to cheat

Ho, May 21, GNA - Mr Cas Van Eerden, the Managing Director of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT), has called for an "open discussion" on ways to stem the propensity of workers in Ghana to cheat their employers through subtle means.

He said such negative tendency posed a great challenge to the country because it contributed to the demise of many companies.

Mr Van Eerden was addressing journalists in Ho on Friday after a four-day tour of the Volta Region to finalize a service expansion programme that would see the MMT putting 10 more buses in the region. He said revenue leakage remained a huge challenge to the MMT and stressed, "I hate it but I will sack anybody caught engaged in it".

Mr Van Eerden said it was the responsibility of passengers to insist that the bus conductors gave them tickets that reflected the fares they paid in respect of themselves and their luggage.

He said the MMT was a limited company that depended solely on moneys it made and would collapse if revenue leakage and other malpractices were allowed to overwhelm it.

Mr Van Eerden said there were many dedicated workers whose hard work was growing the company into a sustainable one and that it projected to increase its current fleet from 600 to 1,000 buses by August 2008.

He said the MMT would from June 4 begin operations with its new 62-seater commuter buses between Sogakope/Aflao and Anloga/Aflao through the beach road.

Other routes would be Ho/Kpando, Ho/Hohoe, and Ho/Adidome/Sogakope. Mr Van Eerden said the Ho/Aflao bus would operate on "point-to-point basis and the buses would move strictly according to fixed time schedules.

Mr Van Eerden said provisions have been made for travelers on the MMT buses in the Volta Region to buy tickets in advance.

He said the commuter buses had no space for standing passengers, would not carry school pupils in uniform for free neither would they carry bulky luggage such as baskets full of tomatoes.

Mr Van Erden said operations on the new routes would be evaluated after one month to see their viability.

He said routes such as Akatsi/Aflao, which could be viable, were being shelved for now because of the bad nature of the road.