I Don’t Support The Strike – Governance Lecturer

Dr. Benjamin Otchere Ankrah, a governance lecturer at Central University, has urged his striking coworkers to rethink their strike action.

Dr Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah disagreed with the teachers’ habit of using strike activities to demand that the government address their complaints when he spoke on Peace FM’s morning program “Kokrokoo.”

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Dr. Otchere-Ankrah urged the teachers to grant Dr. Eric Nkansah the opportunity to work and allow them to evaluate his performance while placing emphasis on the teachers’ demand that the new Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) be terminated and the reason for which they have started a strike.

He questioned why, if they didn’t believe the GES Director-General to be competent, they would let the students suffer for no fault of their own.

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“I don’t support the strike. The GES works with law; the President is the one with authority to appoint the Director-General . . . So, if the person has no criminal record and can do the job, we have to allow him to do it.

“What saddens me the most is the students who are suffering. This is not good. If he had violated the law, then we can say he has contravened the law. But if he hasn’t infracted the law and there is nothing impeding the person from working, let’s allow him to work,” he  “Kokrokoo” host Kwami Sefa Kayi.

Source: peacefmonline