GPHA’s Disrespect to Mills and Akufo-Addo Is Unfortunate - Man of God
A respected man of God, Prophet Emmanuel Anthony Servodzi of Jesus Never Fails Prophetic International Ministry, has joined in the mounting chorus of criticisms against the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) over the Authority’s recalcitrant attitude in response to presidential directives for it to pay over 4,000 of its ex-workers who were retrenched in 2002.
In a criticism, the respected man of God said the GPHA’s behaviour unnecessarily creates disrepute for government and purposes to establishing an unacceptable precedent of presidential disrespect.
“This behaviour has got to stop; we can’t have a state institution defying our president so blatantly,” Prophet Servodzi said in a commentary.
According to him, the deliberate refusal of the GPHA to carry out president Akufo-Addo’s August 2023 instructions to pay the ex-workers constitutes the second time that the authority has disregarded the instructions of a serving president.
“The first was late former President John Evans Atta Mills who had issued an instruction for the ex-workers’ to be paid. The GPHA refused. And now in response to President Akufo-Addo’s instructions too, they are refusing; this is gross insubordination that must not be allowed to continue.”
Prophet Emmanuel Anthony Servodzi’s lambast comes in the wake of a recent press conference that the leader of the ex-workers, Stephen Ashitey Adjei, alias Moshake, held to give the GPHA a month’s ultimatum to either pay them their severance benefits or incur a massive demonstration.
At the press conference, Moshake had shown the instructions that both former President Mills and current President Akufo-Addo had released in regards to the issue and underscored the egregious injustice that GPHA has done the ex-workers by refusing to pay them their due about 20 years ago.
“We are giving the GPHA one month to pay us or be prepared to see red,” Moshake had told some journalists after the press conference.
The ex-workers had been retrenched in 2002 under an exercise that was sponsored by the World Bank. However, rather than pay them all their severance benefits, the GPHA paid only five out of the over 4,000 ex-workers.
Prophet Emmanuel Anthony Servodzi said, asking, “how can you, in good conscience say that people who have worked with the GPHA for over 10, 20 or 30 years are casual workers?”
He called on the GPHA to “stop the disrespect and do the needful,” saying there is every indication that the ex-workers deserve what they are demanding for.
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