{"id":144016,"date":"2015-08-17T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=144016"},"modified":"2015-08-17T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:17:32","slug":"upper-west-vranedco-wokers-protest-against-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=144016","title":{"rendered":"Upper West VRA\/NEDCO wokers protest against MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Workers of the Volta River Authority and Northern Electricity Distribution Company (VRA\/NEDCO) in the Upper West Region today closed their services to the public in protest against the Managing Director (MD),\u00a0 John Nuworklor and the HR officer, Debora Sunkari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-144024 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-7-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"ecg worker in upper west (7)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-7-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-7.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two are alleged to have engaged in acts that are negatively impacting on the growth and development of the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-144019\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-2.jpg\" alt=\"ecg worker in upper west (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-2-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workers accuse the MD of intimidating workers and being vindictive in his style of leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144020 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-3.jpg\" alt=\"ecg worker in upper west (3)\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-3.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The also alleged that he sacked some casual workers and reshuffled area managers without following due procedure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the workers, the HR officer\u00a0is also being selective and does not have enough expertise to lead them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144023 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-6.jpg\" alt=\"ecg worker in upper west (6)\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-6.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-6-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workers presented a petition to the Upper West regional minister at his office and are about to address the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-144018 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"ecg worker in upper west (1)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ecg-worker-in-upper-west-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile some customers have expressed grave concerns about the decision to close down the offices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Latiff Mahama\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers of the Volta River Authority and Northern Electricity Distribution Company (VRA\/NEDCO) in the Upper West Region today closed their services to the public in protest against the Managing Director (MD),\u00a0 John Nuworklor and the HR officer, Debora Sunkari. The two are alleged to have engaged in acts that are negatively impacting on the growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":144021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-144016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}