More than 70,000 members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG) are beginning a nationwide strike tomorrow.
The strike according to CLOGSAG is to ensure that the Registrar of Births and Deaths Registry Samuel Botchwey is removed from office for being a politically exposed person.
Although the presidency last week indicated that Samuel Botchwey has been re-assigned, CLOGSAG said the report suggested that the man is still at post.
Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Isaac Bampoe Addo spoke exclusively to our labour affairs correspondent Daniel Opoku in Accra.
“We had information that on the 17th February, he went for budget hearing in the name of Birth and Death Registry, and we think this is not proper and we think the issue has to be re looked at.
“Because we have stated clearly that Mr. Botchwey as a former DCE and as an activist of NDC cannot be the Registrar of Birth and Deaths, the Supreme Court is very clear you cannot do politics and become a Civil Servant,” he noted.
Isaac Bampoe Addo said some of their members have been dismissed due to their involvement in politics.
“Our members have been dismissed for veering into politics, about thirty for the past five years. So why should politicians with impunity come into the Civil Service and think it should be normal. We are resetting Ghana, all we are asking for Birth and Death Registry is a Civil Service institution and must be run as such,” he said.
He said CLOGSAG will begin strike tomorrow.
“We are asking all our members to sit in the house, we are about seventy thousand we are looking at Ghana and we want to reset Ghana and start fresh,” he warned.
Source: 3news