[ 2017-04-03 ]

Rashid Pelpuo, Member of Parliament for the Wa Constituency

Publish Marwako report – Pelpuo
The Member of Parliament for the Wa Constituency,
Rashid Pelpuo, has called on the Ministry of
Employment to make public its inquiry into the
Abelemkpe Marwako assault.

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations,
Ignatius Baffour Awuah, tasked the Labour
Department of his Ministry to conduct a labour
audit and present its findings in a week,
following the assault of a Ghanaian employee by
her Lebanese supervisor.

But a month after the directive, the committee is
yet to present its report. Speaking to Citi News,
Mr. Pelpuo said the case was of public interest
and called for the release of the report to ensure
transparency and to inform Ghanaians. “We are
still demanding to know what is happening.

The Ministry must be up and doing. They must
ensure that the report they have asked for, they
receive and they would have to share it with the
public.”

Mr. Pelpuo stressed the importance of the case,
given the public investment and the fact that
“an individual was abused and her person was
attacked, so we want to see how that is playing
out. It is important that we hear the results and
see what happening.”

“…We are very much worried about the long
silence on the part of the ministry after it had
made strong demands and public demands on the
labour report about what was happening.”

The victim in the case had her face forcibly
pushed into a bowl of pepper by her Lebanese
supervisor on Sunday, February 26. Management of
Marwako has since suspended the branch supervisor
alleged to have physically assaulted the Ghanaian
employee. The supervisor in question, one Jihad
Chaaban, was arrested and arraigned, but is
currently on bail.

Source - citifmonline.com

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