President Akufo-Addo has directed Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, to meet with Organised Labour leaders to discuss the sale of four hotels owned by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to Dr Bryan Acheampong.
This comes after Organized Labour consistently called on the President to hold a meeting with them on the matter.
Meanwhile, the Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Dr. Yaw Baah, at a press conference, disclosed that President Akufo-Addo has called for a meeting between the Labour Minister and leaders of organized Labour to find a solution to the issue.
“We wrote to the president that we needed to engage him on this [sale of the SSNIT hotels]. He has referred it to the [Employment and Labour Relations] Minister to start the engagement with us. We are hoping that these engagements will help all of us to find a solution to what we think is a problem.
“We are going to meet with the SSNIT Board. Organized labour leaders are going to meet with the SSNIT Board and also with the Employment and Labour Relations Minister who is also in charge of pensions.”
The sale of the hotels, which was brought to the public domain by the Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has been met with objections from Organized Labour and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), who have called for the cancellation of the deal with Ablakwa himself filing a petition at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to probe the arrangement and stop the sale.
