[ 2017-05-02 ]

NPP sacks 200 NHIA workers in two months
The aL-hAJJ can confirm that the Akufo-Addo led
New Patriotic Party government has caused the
newly appointed CEO of National Health Insurance
Authority, Dr Samuel Annor, to terminate the
employment of over 200 staffs suspected of being
sympathizers of the outgone NDC.

The affected workers, this paper has gathered,
were persons employed last year by the erstwhile
Mahama administration and are suspected of being
members or supporters of the now opposition
National Democratic Congress.

While officials at the Authority claim the layoffs
was part of the new administration’s staff
rationalization policy, the pro-poor health
management outfit has since employed over 300
known activist of the ruling party.

Sources at the NHIA told The aL-hAJJ that
“employees who were employed last year and are
on probation together with others have all been
asked to go home. Their places are being taken
over by new employees. The only explanation they
gave was that the layoffs were part of the new
administration’s staff rationalization
plans.”

Documents in possession of The aL-hAJJ indicate
that the Akufo-Addo government has also terminated
the employment of all 216 Beneficiary Monitoring
Assistants employed by the National Youth
Authority under the NDC government.

In February this year, Mr Nathaniel Otoo resigned
as CEO of NHIA due to change in government. Heads
of other state owned institutions have also either
resigned or been fired by President Akufo-Addo
since he took office on January 7, this year.

Several government employees have also been shown
the exit because they were employed during the
erstwhile NDC administration. Early this year, The
National Service Secretariat withdrew the
appointment of National Service Staff whose
recruitment was done in December, last year.

A statement issued by managers of the scheme and
signed by the Acting Executive Director, Ussif
Mustapha said “this decision has been informed
by a thorough consideration of violations of due
process prior to the recruitment”. The affected
persons have however sued the secretariat for
wrongful termination of appointment.

Workers at other state institutions like Bureau of
National Investigation, National Security,
COCOBOD, BOST and others have all had their fair
share of the Akufo-Addo-led government’s policy
of layoffs.

Last week, Chief of Staff, Mrs Akosua Frema Opare
warned that government will sanction
non-performing Chief Directors of the various
Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.

Her comments come months after Energy Minister, Mr
Boakye Agyarko, revealed that the Akufo-Addo
government will sack civil servants appointed by
the Mahama administration.

This, he said, will be done to safeguard the
interest of the NPP’s loyal party faithful, by
getting them to occupy the positions, such as
those of the civil servants “whose party”,
{the NDC} ideologies and beliefs are divergent
from that of the NPP government.

“Most of our loyalists in the civil service were
humiliated by the administrations of Mills and
Mahama, and, so, for me, we have to urgently cater
for such victims. We can’t disregard the
vigorous efforts of the grassroots who have given
us the power,” he noted.

“It is important for us, as a party, to work
hard and expose and shame any NDC civil servant
who will dare do any dubious thing to make the NPP
government unpopular…what do you think will
happen to me and the state, if I should continue
to have some NDC civil servants in certain
critical positions?,” Mr Agyarko retorted on
Oman Fm’s Boiling Point program.

Member of Parliament for Assin Central has also
been advising the President, Ministers and Heads
of State Institutions to sack all workers employed
by the Mahama administration.

Source - alhajjnewspaper.com

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