State Attorneys will resume work today [Monday] after almost three months of strike.<\/p>\n
They declared a strike in October 2016 to protest against government\u2019s failure to meet their demands for improved conditions of service.<\/p>\n
According to the Attorneys, President\u2019s personal intervention in the matter and his assurance that their concerns will be address informed their decision to call off the strike.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General nominee, Gloria Akuffo at her vetting over the weekend confirmed that President Akufo-Addo had intervened and persuaded the Attorneys to resume work.<\/p>\n
She said, “the President himself has intervened in the matter and has succeeded in persuading them to go back to work. I spoke with their national president and she assured me they will be reporting, God willing, on Monday…it [the Tuesday meeting] will come on because we have to look for not only immediate and medium term solutions\u00a0but also long-term solutions. This will require the intervention of all the stakeholders; the attorneys, and it has to do with money, so maybe the fair wages commission and Ministry of Finance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Francisca Tetteh-Mensah, the National President of the State Attorneys Association, <\/strong>in an interview with Citi News<\/strong> said the association had received a letter from Nana Akufo-Addo confirming his readiness to address their concerns.<\/p>\n \u201cWith the coming of a new government we requested a meeting with the President and he granted us this meeting. We explained everything to him and he told us that being a former Attorney General and Lawyer, he respects the law and will make sure it is enforced.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe asked him for a written and he has given us this written commitment and that is why we are resuming. We are calling off the strike,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u2018State attorneys begin nationwide strike\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The Association of State Attorneys declared a strike in October 2016, in protest of government\u2019s failure to meet its demand for improved conditions of service.<\/p>\n Several efforts to get them to return to work have proved futile.<\/p>\n The Attorney-General’s office described the strike as illegal, and further directed the State Attorneys to return to work by Tuesday, January\u00a0 3, 2017, or be \u201cconsidered as having vacated post.\u201d<\/p>\n The Association of State Attorneys, however, insisted their strike is legal, noting that it was pursuant to a\u00a0statutory notice under Section 159 (b) of Act 651.<\/p>\n The attorneys also blamed the National Labour Commission for the impasse, explaining that the Commission should have gone to the High Court to compel\u00a0government\u00a0to improve their conditions of service.<\/p>\n Reliefs being sought by attorneys<\/strong><\/p>\n The reliefs that were being sought by State Attorneys are:<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana\n
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