The Civil and Local Government Staff Association Ghana (CLOGSAG), has accused the government of being inconsistent with the exemption of pensions in the debt exchange programme.
Executive Secretary Dr. Isaac Bampoe Addo says they are not sure the government will keep it’s word to exempt pensions from the programme.
According to him, some pronouncements made by some ministers and party communications of the NPP are inconsistent with the assurance given to them.
He said the government must keep to its promise and exempt them from the programme.
“Our understanding is that pension funds have been exempted from the domestic debt exchange programme, and we expect the government to fulfil its side of the agreement, but if a minister could not state on radio what the Minister of Finance has signed with us, why wouldn’t it bring doubt in the minds of our members?”
He said, “the Minister should have been clear that pension funds are exempted, but he was in doubt about whether pension funds were part of the domestic debt exchange programme or not and that has brought doubt about the MoU that we signed with the government, so we have to assure our members that we will resist the programme.”
“We are reassuring our members and the government that to the best of our knowledge, the exemptions should stand,” he added.
“We are yet to have an interaction with the Employment and Labour Minister to really know what is happening at the Ministry of Finance because if an MoU has been signed with the Ministry of Finance, then all the government ministries should be speaking with one voice.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
