Public Relations officer (PRO) of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Naa Ayele Ardayfio Sekyere says the just ended ‘hands off our hotels’ demo was not to make North Tongu lawmaker Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa popular.
According to her, the move was to ensure pensioners do not retire poor after years of service to the country.
“It’s not about Okudzeto, It’s about people’s monies. It’s not about organized labour. I’m going on pension very soon. I don’t want to retire as a pauper after serving and giving my time to Ghana.
“Then I should have gone somewhere to work where I would be appreciated at the end of the day. So, it’s nothing about Okudzeto. If you think it’s about Okudzeto, well, sorry it’s about my pension money”, Naa Ayele lamented on the Sunrise show on 3FM Wednesdau June 19 with Johnnie Hughes.
She also argued that the Agric Minister is caught in a conflict of interest situation in the move to acquire the hotels belonging to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).
“I am a contributor to SSNIT and I am saying that if Labadi beach is making money, don’t sell it, especially to a cabinet minister. It’s conflict of interest.
Asked if she is surprised that Bryan Acheampong has not backed off the hotels she said “why he’s still there, I don’t know.”
The public relations officer further questioned Brayan Acheampong’s reasons for wanting to buy the SSNIT hotels.
“Why do you want to be disgraced and taken to the gallows before you move out? And anyway, organized labour said it in no uncertain terms that if this sale goes on, we will do what we do best as workers. We have to meet the President next week or maybe his representative. We understand 24th or 25th or whatever.
Hundreds of demonstrators on Tuesday, June 18, gathered at the Labadi Beach Hotel for the “Hands Off Our Hotels” demonstration.
The main objective of the protest was to exert pressure on the government to immediately halt the proposed sale of a 60 percent stake in four prominent hotels owned by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to Rock City Hotel owned by Bryan Acheampong, Ghana’s Minister for Food and Agriculture.
The hotels in question include the Labadi Beach Hotel, La Palm Royal Beach Resort, Elmina Beach Resort, and Busua Beach Resort.
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