President Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, to meet with organised Labour on the proposed sale of SSNIT’s stake in some four hotels to Bryan Acheampong, Minister for Food and Agriculture.
This development follows a petition by Organised Labour to halt the sale of the four hotels to Bryan Acheampong.
In response to the petition, President Akufo-Addo has directed Employment and Labour Relations Minister Ignatius Baffour Awuah to engage in discussions with the labour leaders.
“We wrote to the president that we needed to engage him on this [sale of the SSNIT hotels]. He has referred it to the [Employment and Labour Relations] Minister to start the engagement with us. We are hoping that these engagements will help all of us to find a solution to what we think is a problem," Dr. Yaw Baah, the Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said in an interview.
“We are going to meet with the SSNIT Board. Organized labour leaders are going to meet with the SSNIT Board and also with the Employment and Labour Relations Minister who is also in charge of pensions.
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who first brought the sale to the public domain, has also petitioned the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to probe the sale of the hotels to the Agric Minister.