Do you count blessed for a 4% pay rise, it should have been zero – Prof Adei to public workers

Former GIMPA rector Professor Stephen Adei rekindled an almost calm question for telling public sector workers that they did not deserve any pay rise.

He said rather than get agitated, public workers should consider themselves blessed to have even had a 4 percent pay rise.

According to Professor Adei, who is known to always say what he thinks, no matter which OX is gored, everyone is aware of the devastation Covid-19 has caused to economies around the world, so it is out of order. to call for a pay rise.

“People who say [the] 4 percent [pay rise] is not enough; in fact, to be honest, it should have been zero percent. Yes.

“… The situation in the country is such that except – I have to qualify it – you can’t say zero percent for them and other people get 70 percent or a raise.

“It should have been zero anyway because the message should have been sent that we are in crisis, so we cannot have ‘Monkey dey chop baboon dey work’,” the former boss of GIMPA told Class Fm’s Kofi Oppong Asamoah on Wednesday.

Professor Adei praised the president for repaying his salary increase to the government, saying the act was enough to signal the rest of the country that it was time to make similar sacrifices.

“The president is out and yet in Ghana good news is not good news. The president said that all the increase that was recommended, he is not going to accept it; and his vice and his ministers, and you know, it was just flash in the pan.

“He [president] gave the instruction from the start and what he did is that, always, automatically, the Comptroller and Accountant General paid it into his account for reimbursement. But anyway, whether it’s outcry or not, if you’re a leader, that’s a good example. He says, “We are in trouble and therefore I will – whether he be pushed or reacted – aim for zero.” Then other people should know that their 4% is actually higher, ”Prof. Adei stressed.

His comments come at a time when the dust of public sector workers’ unrest appears to be slowly settling, even though they have not been convinced by the government’s apology.