Mampong (Ash), Aug. 8, GNA - Civil Servants in the Sekyere West District of Ashanti on Monday, began wearing red bands to show their readiness in joining colleagues nationwide to embark on a strike action, if demands for improved service conditions failed.

Mr Henry Kofi Hagan, the District Secretary of the Civil Servants Association of Ghana (CSA) in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Asante-Mampong, said their action was in line with a directive from the National Executive Council of the Association.

He said the local branch was, therefore, poised to join their colleagues nationwide on a strike to protest against "the consistent deliberate policy of discrimination by government against civil servants in handling all public service wages and salaries and other conditions of service".

In a resolution adopted at the end of its 10th quadrennial national delegates congress held in Kumasi late July, the CSA resolved to use strikes to back their demands for improved service conditions. "Civil servants are also now convinced that strikes and other breaches of industrial peace are not only swiftly attended to, but also hugely rewarded, hence, we resolve that our traditional co-operation, understanding and respect for dialogue, promises and pledges by government is suspended", the resolution stated.

The Association called on government to meet all outstanding commitments to civil servants by August 15.