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DAILY HERITAGE THURSDAY, AUGUST <strong>23</strong>, 2018<br />
05<br />
Editorial<br />
Govts are elected to create employment and not job losses<br />
IT IS becoming increasingly clear that<br />
some policies of the government are<br />
geared towards creating unemployment<br />
for hundreds of Ghanaians, instead<br />
of creating employment<br />
opportunities for our people.<br />
In the name of reforms, some appointees<br />
of the government are implementing<br />
policies that are rendering<br />
many jobless.<br />
One of such policies is the socalled<br />
banking sector reforms which<br />
have rendered and will soon render<br />
hundreds and thousands jobless.<br />
Another policy that, if implemented,<br />
would surely render hundreds<br />
jobless is the proposed<br />
retrenchment of about 90% of the<br />
staff of Ghana Post Company Limited.<br />
Information available to the<br />
DAILY HERITAGE indicates<br />
that staff of the Ghana Post Company<br />
Limited nationwide would soon<br />
be given the matching orders because<br />
they lack knowledge in Information<br />
and Communications Technology<br />
(ICT).<br />
The move, according to our<br />
sources, is to enhance operations and<br />
ensure smooth running of the company.<br />
The decision became necessary<br />
after management of the state company,<br />
through internal research, discovered<br />
that majority of the staff<br />
lacked ICT knowledge of the new<br />
system being installed by the government<br />
as part of rebranding exercise<br />
of the company currently underway.<br />
Sources told the paper that the research<br />
report submitted to the office<br />
of the Vice President revealed that the<br />
average staff age of the Ghana Post<br />
Company Limited was 55 years, with<br />
very few willing to learn ICT when<br />
given the opportunity.<br />
After a crunch meeting on the effective<br />
running of the digital addressing<br />
system among other ICT elements<br />
being synchronised into the operations<br />
of Ghana Post, management of<br />
the company decided to retrench at<br />
least 90% of the staff instead of<br />
spending huge sums of money to<br />
train them in ICT when they would<br />
retire in the next five years.<br />
We appreciate the efforts by the<br />
management of Ghana Post Company<br />
Limited to reform the company,<br />
but don’t think that the solution to<br />
lack of knowledge in ICT is dismissal.<br />
Five years to retirement is a long<br />
time worth investing. Retrenchment<br />
will only render them jobless after<br />
many years of dedicated service,<br />
which is not fair.<br />
The workers, some of whom have<br />
worked with the company for many<br />
years, should therefore be trained on<br />
the job to be abreast of the current<br />
trend.<br />
NDC race:<br />
Mahama to declare<br />
intention today<br />
BY STEPHEN ODOI LARBI<br />
• Former President John Dramani Mahama<br />
JOHN DRAMANI Mahama,<br />
will on Thursday,<br />
<strong>August</strong> <strong>23</strong>, 2018, present<br />
his letter to the general<br />
secretary of the opposition<br />
National Democratic Congress<br />
(NDC) to officially<br />
declare his intention to contest<br />
the vacant flagbearer position<br />
of the party.<br />
His letter of intent, according<br />
to sources, is expected to be<br />
presented to the party by his<br />
campaign team.<br />
The former Ghanaian leader<br />
whom many had expected to<br />
declare his intention will then<br />
proceed to one of the regions<br />
where he is expected to seek the<br />
blessings of chiefs and begin<br />
his campaign.<br />
His entry into the NDC flagbearer<br />
race will bring to an end<br />
all the speculations surrounding<br />
his return to the lead the party a<br />
third time.<br />
Mr Mahama has already<br />
tested the waters with the<br />
party’s unity walk that was<br />
spearheaded by Kojo Bonsu, a<br />
former Mayor of Kumasi, and<br />
grounds appear to be fertile for<br />
his coming back.<br />
He will join the likes of the<br />
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament,<br />
Hon. Alban Sumana<br />
Kingsford Bagbin, former Chief<br />
Executive Officer of National<br />
Identification Authority,<br />
Sylvester Mensah, the poor boy<br />
from Binduri, Stephen Atubiga,<br />
Prof. Joshua Alabi, Dr Ekow<br />
Spio-Garbrah, Hon. Kweku<br />
Ricketts-Hagan and Elikplim<br />
Agbemava to contest the vacant<br />
flagbearer position of the party.<br />
The NDC goes to the polls<br />
on December 7, 2018 to elect a<br />
flagbearer.