The General Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Kafui Johnson has been requested by the Auditor General’s department to re-instate Abraham S. Adjei, the technician of the Agency who blew the whistle on the various irregularities in the nation’s sole wire agency.
Shortly after Mr Adjei had reported cases of underpayment of workers’ salaries, the delay in promoting casual workers to full staff status and other anomalies, which the workers disliked, his appointment was terminated for no apparent reason.
A letter from the Auditor General, Edward Dua Agyeman signed on May 7, this year to Mr Kafui Johnson said: ”I recommend that Mr S. A, Adjei should be reinstated forthwith without any loss in remuneration or grade”. Until Adjei was sacked, he was a Chief Technical superintendent and Chairman of the Public Service Workers Union of the GNA.
The Auditor General’s letter said ”My draft report on the investigations submitted to you, the two former managers and your respective responses on the issue clearly shows that the union’s concerns were largely proven”.
When contacted on whether or not he would reinstate Mr Adjei, Mr Johnson said he was not the authority who employed the technician, he further said because the decision to terminate Adjei’s appointment was taken by the management board of GNA, he had decided to refer the Auditor General’s report to ”our supervising authority, which is the National Media Commission”.
Source: GhanaWeb
