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Stop the 'proceed on leave' syndrome - Minority tells government

According to him, the sacked workers have been replaced with "NPP apparatchiks without due process."

Addressing a press conference Friday in response to President Nana Akufo-Addo's first budget, the Minority Leader Mr Haruna Iddrisu called on the government to respect the labour law.

He said: "President Mils in 2009 extended the tenure of every District Chief Executive because, under the constitution, the decentralised provisions of the constitution are not partisan and, therefore, you come and say ‘go home’ yet you have not provided an alternative. So as we speak on Monday, we will see the interesting thing that will happen across Ghana.

"The lawlessness must stop, the contract of employment must be respected, you cannot just wake up and ask a Chief Executive to hand over by 5 pm. In every contract of employment, you have three months’ notice that you must give a person in terminating his employment.”

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Mr Iddrisu also presented the number of people he claims have been dismissed from the various government institutions.

The list, he noted, include;

He further noted that several others public sector workers are still sitting on "tenterhooks, not for any wrongdoing, but just because the worst fears of Ghanaian workers akin to Apolo 568 has resurrected and revisited them."

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