Workers of the Ghana National Gas Company Limited have issued a three week ultimatum to government to rescind its decision to hand over the management of the Ghana National Gas pipeline to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST).<\/p>\n
The workers say they will embark on a demonstration if their demand is ignored.<\/p>\n
“Failure with which the union will have no choice but to advice itself and if necessary lay down our tools from August 26, 2016 in protest of our displeasure at the state of affairs at the company,” a\u00a0statement from the Ghana National Gas Workers Union of the General Transport Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union GTPCWU of the Trades Union Congress TUC signed by the Unions Chairman, Richmond Alamu indicated.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Alamu \u201cworkers of Ghana Gas feels slighted and undervalued by the government, the Finance and Petroleum Ministries for going ahead to announce the takeover of the company\u2019s facilities without any engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGhana Gas personnel, apart from working tirelessly and delivering on its mandate to curtail the \u2018dumsor\u2019 situation, is also saving the government of Ghana of harsh invoice balances from the importation of light crude oil for energy production. Considering these beneficial deliverable on the company\u2019s part, the local union least expects government to engage in such demotivation fragmentation of the company by siphoning its important installations to other state agencies without tangible synergistic plan for a win-win manifesto,” he added.<\/p>\n
Mr. \u00a0Alamu further stated that “there was a directive from the Ministry of Petroleum to BOST to take over the management of the natural gas facilities without any engagement,\u2026 we are yet to receive any official communication from government or the sector ministry about the proposed takeover [by BOST]. The union is of the view that such decisions demoralize personnel and may ultimately affect productivity in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n
Use monies from energy levy to defray VRA indebtedness<\/strong><\/p>\n The workers also want government to use monies accrued into the Energy Levy Fund to pay the over $350 million \u201cVRA\u2019s chronic indebtedness to Ghana Gas being the invoice value for lean gas supplied for its power production\u201d.<\/p>\n The union says the ripple effect of the VRA\u2019s indebtedness to Ghana Gas \u201chas virtually disabled the company from meeting its debt servicing obligation to the China Development Bank, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation for its raw gas exported to the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant\u201d.<\/p>\n The statement added that\u00a0\u201cwe therefore request the government of Ghana and the relevant MDA\u2019s, as a matter of urgency to release monies accrued from the Energy Debt Levy to Ghana Gas to help sustain the latter\u2019s operations. Should this fail, we shall resolve to resort to this very harsh position [lay down tools] since we do not want Ghana Gas to become a highly indebted agency like TOR, VRA, ECG and other state agencies\u201d.<\/p>\n – Workers of the Ghana National Gas Company Limited have issued a three week ultimatum to government to rescind its decision to hand over the management of the Ghana National Gas pipeline to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST). The workers say they will embark on a demonstration if their demand is ignored. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nBy: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"