Ghanaian workers at Akroma Gold Mines have expressed their displeasure with their employers, citing abuse and poor working conditions.
The workers stated that the straw that broke the camel’s back was a recent incident involving a Ghanaian translator and a Chinese who allegedly threatened the Ghanaian with a gun.
According to his colleagues, the Chinese Nationale would have shot the Ghanaian if he had not fled for his life.
According to a report, the Chinese national is a senior in the Akroma Gold Mines company, and when recounting the incident to the media, *Charles Boateng, a Ghanaian-Chinese Translator to Akroma Gold Mines, who had a misunderstanding with the Chinese national stressed, the Chinese allegedly punched him, and when he tried to defend himself, the Chinese national allegedly went to his car at high speed to go for a gun in the heat of the argument.
Meanwhile, Mr. Jerry Kwabena Andoh, Deputy General Secretary of Ghana Union of Mines under the (TUC)_ who represented the workers from National intervened in the demonstration calm was restored later, but they proceeded to the foreigners and the Management to demand a crackdown on the rampant abuses on the workers’.
They have also demanded good working conditions for their members in the company.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/gHANA
