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Company News from Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2018-12-12
NIC members
The special working group of the National Insurance Commission (NIC) arrested six workers because their employers had not complied with the compulsory insurance policy.
Tuesday's operation by the working group is the fourth time that the NIC engages in a distress action to enforce compliance with the policy.
The six arrested workers were taken to the police headquarters while awaiting authorization from the authorities.
Articles 183 and 184 of the Insurance Act 724 require private commercial buildings, including those under construction, to be insured.
The task force is to be duplicated in the ten regions and will have the mandate to arrest and prosecute offenders.
Resistance
Until now, the exercise has been met with severe resistance, with some workers claiming that the arrests were a violation of human rights and an attack on the policy's purpose.
After picking up some workers, the operation became chaotic when members of the task force were allegedly abused and handcuffed to tenants of buildings violating the policy.
Micah Boateng, one of the people arrested, said the task force was hostile.
"Just because I wanted to make a call, one grabbed his arm and called the other to handcuff me in the streets. Everyone was filming as if I were a killer or a criminal, "Micah told Joy Business.
A representative group of Ghanaians, who described the NIC strategy as a means of sowing fear and panic, echoed Micah's distress.
"I can not believe it's happening. Do they want to sow fear in us or what, how can you just get into someone's shop and arrest a worker without any warrants? It's so unfortunate, "Joy Business told the keeper of a shop in Achimota.
When NIC Marketing Manager Joseph Bento, who also led the working group, was contacted, he said the NIC tried to persuade but failed.
"They [persons picked up] are not the owners but the tenants and the occupants of the properties. We have been persuasive over the years and we have now decided to become stronger, "he said.
In the meantime, the leader of the police rapid deployment team, Superintendent Al-Meyao K. Abbad, ignored the allegations of foul play.
He claims that the minimum of force was used on workers who proved non-compliant
"If a person arrested does not cooperate, the law allows us to use a minimum force, I repeat, minimum force. We do not use the maximum force in this exercise, "he justified.
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