WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY

TUC Secretary General, Kofi Asamoah By Duke Nii Amartey Tagoe Organized labour has held a massive demonstration in the 10 regional capitals of Ghana to demand an end to the tyranny of government and the dwindling fortunes of Ghanaian workers. The leadership of the striking workers has expressed outrage at the recent bizarre increases in the price of utilities-water and electricity. The more than 5000 demonstrators drawn from the workers unions of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have also called for a full disclosure of the agreement signed between the government of Ghana and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Following the recent bailout of government by the Bretton Woods institution, spokespersons of government have dropped hints about a possible takeover or sale or privatization of the Electricity Company of Ghana. The move will also lead to the partition of the Volta River Authority into two entities in order to create space or allow for the participatio...

Dispossed salt miners along the Keta lagoon By Duke Nii Amartey Tagoe It has happened again! The pillage goes on and on. The Keta Lagoon in the Volta Region has been handed over to a salt mining company for $30,000 (Thirty Thousand Dollars). The deal between the Ghana Minerals Commission and Kensington Industries Limited of India, will enable the company grab 7000 acres of the entire lagoon whilst 300metres at the periphery representing 3 percent (3%) of the lagoon will be left for the local salt miners. What is worse, the company has departed from the agreement it signed with the Minerals Commission to use sea brine for salt production and has resorted to the use of surface water and underground pool by means of pipes and very huge pumping machines. It has also emerged that long before the Kensington Industries Limited was granted a license to mine salt in the Adina-Denu area, it had already encroached on lands belonging to the neighboring communities in flagr...