CLOGSAG standoff with government hitting hard at businesses and assemblies
The industrial action being embarked on by members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association Ghana (CLOSSAG) is biting really hard as it has left many applicants who were trying to register or renew their businesses at the Registrar General’s Department disappointed on Thursday, May 5 2022.
Several applicants who visited the office to do business were left in disappointment due to the ongoing strike by CLOGSAG.
The affected applicants who were not attended to could not hide their frustrations.
“I cannot enter because they are on strike. It is not good news because, in business, every day counts.”
“I came all the way from Kasoa, and I was told that they are on strike. I am very disappointed. I travelled quite a distance, and they are not able to tell me when they will resume,” another said.
Another applicant said, “there is nobody, and the machines have been put off with no service being rendered. I am so disappointed.”
“I have started a new business and I want to register, and I came all the way from Spintex. I just realized they are on strike because I didn’t know about it,” one other person mentioned.
At the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, officials bemoaned how they have been gravely affected by the ongoing strike.
According to the assembly, some of its functions have stalled over the period due to the action.
Presiding Member of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Alfred Adjei, appealed to members of CLOGSAG and the government to find a common ground in resolving their concerns.
“CLOGSAG forms an integral part of the Assembly’s structure and administration. Without them, you can never run the assembly effectively. Whatever decision we want to take, they must guide it because they are the technocrats, so their absence is really affecting us,” he lamented.
Since Thursday, April 21, CLOGSAG has been drawing the attention of the government to honour its payment plan for their Political Neutrality Allowance agreed on in January 2022. The strike was expected to be called off by Friday, April 29 but no such thing has occurred yet.
