Editorial News of Tuesday, 10 October 2000

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We will not shut up!

The Guide, reports on its front page that, JOY FM, 99.7 has begun a shocking expose' on the giant pension house, Social Security and National Insurance Trust.

According to the paper, for two weeks, the radio station, has put SSNIT, under the microscope exposing it as an organisation grossly lacking transparency and accountability and has dared the Director General of the Organisation, Mr. Charles Asare, to come to its studios to answer pertinent questions surrounding the pension scheme, which according to JOY has reduced some pensioners into taking home a measly 25000 cedis.

Komla Dumor and Sony Decker are the two main media men in the case dubbed the crusade, shocked the whole country when they revealed on the Monday edition of the morning show that the SSNIT bosses had attempted to bribe them.

Dumor according to the paper, again dared the DG, Asare to answer their questions, and should desist from sending "peacemaking emissaries and parcels in polythene bags" to them. He emphasised that he does not know the DG personally and had nothing against him or anyone else at SSNIT.