Ghana Railway Company staff owed 6 months’ salary arrears — MD

Ing. Dr. Michael Adjei Anyetei, Managing Director of the Ghana Railway Company Limited, has bemoaned the company’s financial struggles.

According to him, workers of the company are owed six months’ salary arrears, a situation that has been accumulating since the previous government.

Speaking during a meeting with the sector minister, Dr. Adjei Anyetei noted that the company is currently unable to undertake maintenance works.

“You will bear with me that in the rail sector, anything you do is capital-intensive. We don’t have the infrastructure to generate enough revenue to pay ourselves, let alone carry out maintenance works.

“As I speak with you, Honorable, I know you may have heard that for some time now—exactly six months, am I right?—the railway worker has not received a salary. And Honorable Minister, I am not going to blame this government,” he said.

The MD further expressed hope that the situation would change under the new National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, led by President John Dramani Mahama.

“What we are seeing now is a cumulative effect. When I say cumulative effect, I know we all understand that it didn’t start with this government. But the good news is that there is hope,” he noted.