Members of the Teachers’ Educational Workers’ Union, (TEWU) of the College of Health Sciences of the University of Ghana Medical School at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, have withdrawn all security services from the facility.
According to them, the presence of heavy security personnel on the premises is intimidating.
TEWU has been on an indefinite strike action since July, 10.
The strike is as a result of outstanding market premiums owed them.
Secretary of the group, Dominic Gyamfi in an interview with Citi News stated that their members who are security officers have also been asked to lay down their tools until their concerns are addressed.
“When we started the strike, there wasn’t any police. No national security came there. It was our security who was protecting the place as part of their normal duties, so nothing happened; but now they have brought in police. That means they are undermining the work we are doing,” he said.
He mentioned that there had been a theft incident on Thursday and added that this was as a result of the huge numbers of police on the premises.
“When there wasn’t any national security or police, we didn’t have such issues”, he claimed.
Mr. Gyamfi added that the union was not engaging in any violence, and as such there was no need for the security agencies to reinforce their personnel.
“Industrial action doesn’t mean violence, we have never engaged in any violence.”
He expressed shock at one of the union briefings at which there were about five hundred heavily-armed police men to maintain law and order.
By: Afua Kesewa Akoto/citifmonline.com/Ghana