The President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has called on government and the general public to stop \u2018moralizing\u2019 the on-going POTAG strike and analyze the situation with an open mind.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026the attempt of trying to moralize everything in this country\u2026if we reduce the argument to that level, then you defeat the whole argument of tripartite negotiation,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
The Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has been on a nationwide strike for three months, protesting the non-payment of their book and research allowances.<\/p>\n
This stance by the association prompted\u00a0the Ministry of Education to direct the Controller and Accountant General to freeze their August salaries.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the ongoing situation on Citi FM\u2019s The\u00a0Big Issue<\/em><\/strong>, Mr Cudjoe described the stance taken by POTAG as legally valid.<\/p>\n He blamed the government for allowing the strike to go on for three months\u00a0and called for a drastic intervention by authorities to find solutions to the problem.<\/p>\n \u201cThe issue about whether people should be paid or not, there were warning signs, the way we do our things in this country, where we wait till the last minute, there are lives to be saved economically\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt appears that the bible say if you don\u2019t work you don\u2019t eat, and in the same bible does say that individuals must accept responsibilities. So this thing of moralizing everything must cease,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has called on government and the general public to stop \u2018moralizing\u2019 the on-going POTAG strike and analyze the situation with an open mind. \u201c\u2026the attempt of trying to moralize everything in this country\u2026if we reduce the argument to that level, then you defeat the whole argument of tripartite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41356,"comment_status":"closed","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":[43,38,16],"class_list":["post-41337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41337","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}