Address Problems Bedeviling Civil Service -NEC

The Civil Servants Association of Ghana has called on the government to take steps to meet the leadership of the association to find ways of redressing the numerous problems bedevilling the Civil Service.

It threatened that if the government fails to react to the association’s demand by the end of January 2003, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the association will get tougher and take a decisive stand.

These were contained in a statement issued at the end of an emergency NEC meeting in Kumasi to re-appraise the association’s stand on some of the problems facing it.

According to the statement, the Civil Service has been bedevilled with lot of problems, which include discrimination in the payment of pension, government’s ad-hoc approach to salary administration, absence of a training institute for the service and the delay in the appointment of the Head of the Civil Service.