Postal staff angry over 1.8 billion cedis scandal

In a front page splash, the Ghanaian Voice says a state of uneasiness, suspicion and murmuring, is rife within the rank and file of the Ghana Postal Service Corporation in the wake of workers? discontent about why some 1.8 billion cedis worth of imported telecommunication equipment to strengthen the corporation?s operations, are lying idle in various parts of the country.

The paper quotes sources at the corporation?s headquarters and regional offices, notably, in Ashanti, Eastern and Central, as indicating that many of the workers are aggrieved about how the equipment which some of them described as ?unwanted? and ?sub-standard?, were imported into Ghana.

It is alleged that the importation of the equipment was influenced by the current Director-General of the corporation, Mr Isaac Adu Boahene. According to the Voice, Mr Boahene is alleged to have introduced some ?bizarre? administrative procedures and virtually turned the corporation into an NDC household.