Addendum To My Press Statement

Fellow Ghanaians after my press conference on 14/10/2015 in Tamale, I have realised that the evil forces have started working. They have started mobilising the children of darkness to come at me. But before they come I employ them to go read Psalm 140 -150.

And why won’t someone realise by now that I am always one step ahead of him and do the honourable thing?

Fellow Ghanaians, I want to tell you that this is a calling and I am not going to refuse my makers call at the instance of man. I am putting my whole life to it. I only need your prayers and I know that you support this cause wholeheartedly. In this vain, I call on all media houses to get hold of my press statement and publish it for all Ghanaians to read. And one thing, I appreciate some of the corrections made by you, but I am human and bound to make mistakes. I cannot be 100% correct, so bear with me.

I hear others say my demand of GH¢500,000.00 from CLOGSAG to undertake this worthy cause means I am corrupt. Let me clarify. CLOGSAG as my union takes dues from me and others like me to stand for my rights. In a conservative estimates, they get about GH¢900,000 a year in dues only from northern region. In my opinion CLOGSAG failed in fighting for my rights when the Local Government Service made me worse off by increasing my promotion years against all laws and best practices in this country.

I didn’t mind and decided to take my destiny into my own hands by petitioning my Head of Service to reverse an illegality because I have lost trust in workers unions. Before this petition, I wrote to CLOGSAG to report this anomaly by the Local Government Service and they never bothered to even acknowledge receipt. Don’t tell me you did not receive it.

I posted it through EMS as usual and they have never failed me. For the petition because some portions of it bothered on their interest and sensing the threat of us leaving them in bulk if they did not do something, CLOGSAG boldly came in and as usual went to bed with the Head of Service to intimidate me and stop me from fighting for my right. This is at the backdrop of our petition giving them an opportunity to even talk to the Head of Service because he has avoided them prior to our petition.

Don’t ask how I got to know this because one of you told me and at our meeting with you, I heard how Dr. Callistus Mahama had changed and became very friendly to you. I was told at the meeting that you had come to some compromise on the issue of composition of the Local Government Service Council and the Head of Service did not bother to react to it again. When I even visibly showed that I was not satisfied at the Head of Service’s explanation, your vice president tried intimidating me further. I must tell you, no one angered me at that meeting more than the Vice President of CLOGSAG. One of you who convinced me to come to you even betrayed the whole group by yielding to Dr. Callistus’ intimidatory tactics.

You won’t believe it but this was revealed to me in my sleep. I must state here that I don’t blame that person for yielding though and he is still my friend. That is the system I am out to fight and that experience thought me a huge lesson and I thank my maker for that lesson. As I write, I am at the scholarship secretariat and if anyone wants evidence of why I am doing what I am doing, he should just visit the scholarship secretariat.

Fellow Ghanaians, am I wrong to say that CLOGSAG has been indiscipline? And so as part of the ‘Indiscipline as a resource for nation building’ project, shouldn’t they pay that money so I will use it to help free Ghana from the spirit of darkness? Some have said it is blackmail. No. It is not. It is rather clear evidence that we can use indiscipline to raise the money IMF is currently giving us.

And why have we stopped thinking as a country? Yes I know, I know Ghanaians are very brilliant and industrious, it is the system that we have collectively created for ourselves that is not allowing us. I have broken loose from the chains of that system and I am on course to see Ghana and Africa work again. Come and let’s work together to see Ghana work again and once again regain permanently the status of ‘the shining star of Africa’.

I hope someone is listening.

I shall be back!

Sincerely in the service of mother Ghana,

Charles Ayuune Akurugu

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