The Union of Industry, Commerce and Finance Workers (UNICOF) has admitted to wrongfully suspending its General Secretary, John Esiape.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”vNDrQSTaUuueFjacd29Ity0Ngk2zVkvB”]A letter dated July 15, 2016 and addressed to the Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC),\u00a0stated that “the Management Committee of UNICOF erred by suspending<\/a><\/span><\/strong> the General Secretary, John Esiape.”<\/p>\n Portions of the document which has been sighted by Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0read,\u00a0\u201cWe hereby accept that we misdirected ourselves and changed the complainant\u2019s interdiction to suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n It added,\u201cWe shall therefore take the necessary steps to reverse the suspension to interdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n This comes after the lawyer for John Esiape, Prof. Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah in June, petitioned the NLC over the wrongful application of the regulations on the interdiction and illegal suspension of his client.<\/p>\n Citi Business News<\/strong>\u00a0also understands that according to the union’s own regulations, no person or a member of the union would be interdicted beyond six (6) months.<\/p>\n Even though UNICOF has agreed to withdraw the suspension, its\u00a0Chairman, Alex Nyarko \u2013 Opoku insists that \u201cthere is nothing in the complainant\u2019s conditions of service which can restrain any governing body or bodies of UNICOF from initiating disciplinary proceedings against\u00a0Mr. Esiape.<\/p>\n The union insist that,\u201cwhere allegations against is of such a grievous nature and investigations are long to conduct, then the six (6) months would not apply\u201d.<\/p>\n Persons with knowledge on the matter tell Citi Business News\u00a0<\/strong>John Esiape\u2019s suspension follows the alteration of a document by UNICOF\u2019s accountant, who during investigations revealed he was given the go ahead to make the amendments by the General Secretary.<\/p>\n UNICOF must prove allegations\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n