Ho, Jan, 26, GNA – Dr Winfred Kwame, Marcoor-Tsey, who said he was a Nuclear Scientist told the NRC sitting in Ho on Monday that as a Nuclear Scientist he was compelled to take up teaching appointment at Mawuli School because the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), his former employers refused to re-engage him after further studies abroad. He said he left Ghana in December 1976 when he was an employee of the GAEC to pursue a two-year Masters Degree on study leave without pay. Dr Marcoor-Tsey said he however, stayed on in the United States of America to pursue his doctorate degree and sought to return after 12 years.
He said the Inter-Governmental Committee on Migration (ICM) of the US had undertaken to finance his return and resettlement home provided his former employers were ready to re-engage him.
Dr Marcoor-Tsey said he had to return to the country on his own to pursue his re-engagement and that all correspondence from the GAEC had ceased.
Back home and with his failure to be re-engaged by the GAEC, he lost the IMC package and other benefits which included a 20,000-dollar resettlement grant.
He prayed the NRC to impress upon the GAEC to pay him the amount he lost as a result of its inability to re-engage him. Dr Marcoor-Tsey said he was advised by friends not to return to the country after two years as required by the terms of his study leave because of the alleged unfavourable political climate then in the country.
Professor Henrietta Mensa Bonsu, said the terms of the agreement on his study leave required him to come back after two years and that the GAEC had the first option to re-engage him and not obliged to employ him. She explained that his attitude had put the GAEC in a difficult situation by his failure to honour his part of the agreement. Another petitioner Mr Samuel Kwame Adablah, prayed the NRC to prevail on the Ho District Assembly to pay compensation to the Adablah family for the 24 years it unlawfully sited a public toilet and a rubbish dump on the family land.
He also appealed to the Commission to get the Assembly to remove the toilet and rubbish dumb on the land because, it was very close to their home posed nuisance and health hazards.
According to Mr Adablah, the District Environmental Health Superintendent had inspected the site and recommended the removal of the toilet and refuse dump.
He claimed that the land, belonging to the people of Klefe and situated between Ho-Bankoe and Anagokodzi was bought by his father in the 1930s. Mr Adablah said sometime in January 1978, some workmen entered the land and claimed that they were working for the then District Council, which was about to build the toilet and refuse dump. He said his late father and later his children sent several petitions to the District Assembly on the matter but received no response alleging that, it could be because they were settlers.
Source: GhanaWeb
