Tension is mounting on the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) as employees protest towards administration selections they consider are undermining the group’s progress. The grievances focus on what they describe as politically motivated appointments, favoritism, and procedural breaches underneath the management of Managing Director Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare.
Workers allege that the MD has fast-tracked the promotion of sure people to prime administration positions inside simply three months of their employment, bypassing due course of. They declare these appointments are influenced by political affiliations with the New Patriotic Party (NPP), notably throughout the Commercial Department, which oversees key income contracts and landed properties.
Adding to the discontent is the reinstatement of Felicia Edem Attipoe, former MCE for Tema East. Staff members declare she continued to obtain salaries whereas on go away with out pay throughout her political appointment. Despite an earlier interdiction letter, she has been re-engaged by the brand new MD following the NPP’s exit from energy. Aggrieved employees are calling for an impartial committee to research allegations of double wage funds towards her, despite the fact that she reportedly refunded the quantity after the NPP left workplace.
The employees are additionally elevating issues about politically uncovered people occupying key administration positions. They cite the appointment of Gideon Mahama Grumah, a former aide to the late Aviation Minister Kofi Addah and an NPP parliamentary aspirant, as Director of Commercial Services. Additionally, they declare that the MD has promoted a number of NPP executives and loyalists, together with Greater Accra Regional Vice Chairman Eric Yeboah and 18 others, to senior administration positions with out following established procedures.
The employees are additionally questioning why the brand new Mahama administration has retained Yvonne Nana Afriyie Opare as MD, regardless of widespread dissatisfaction. Furthermore, some workers have vowed to withstand any try to introduce a Deputy Managing Director place, arguing that it doesn’t exist in the corporate’s organizational construction. They warn that such strikes could lead on to ongoing tensions between the federal government and the employees’ union.
As the agitation grows, employees are demanding transparency, adherence to due course of, and a administration construction free from political affect.
