The Ministry of Energy has issued a statement, which seems to confirm suspicion that the attitude of the besieged VRA Chief Executive, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobbey might be a factor in the protracted dispute between him and VRA employees. This is in view of the fact that allegations leveled against him by the workers have been substantially proven to be without merit by both the Special Ministerial Committee and the Auditor-General.

The statement reads: “The Ministry (of Energy) informed the President the conclusion of the committee that it is the management style of the Chief Executive that caused the industrial dispute”.

The purpose of the press release signed by S. Q. Barnor, Acting Chief Director at the Ministry “is to ensure that the Ministry of Energy communicates to the public, the current state of review initiated by the Ministry in the industrial dispute between the staff and workers on one hand and the Chief Executive and Board of Directors of the VRA on the other”.

Dr Nduom’s Ministry has been under some fire for not making public, the full findings of the committee. In defence, the Ministry of Energy writes that it considered the technical and financial matters covered in the report of the committee, which looked into allegations against the CEO “to be significant enough to warrant confirmation and additional work to determine the way forward”.

The President granted the request of the Minister to keep the report and perform further analysis and investigation work, given the technical nature of the issues presented and the strategic nature of VRA.

The Ministry however describes as unfortunate that “some members of the public and sections of the media have interpreted this as foot dragging, indecision and at worst, a conspiracy to hide the truth”.