Speaking to the media, Sam George revealed that these employees were hired after the December 7, 2024, election, during the transition period of the previous administration.
He stated that proper recruitment protocols were not followed, and upon assuming office, he discovered that over 600 individuals had been recruited during this period.
This, he explained, necessitated the dismissals.
“People have raised questions about their staff rationalisation ongoing at the ministry. But if you are a minister and you take over a ministry that has 3,117 staff in the ministry and its agencies, and you realise that almost 600 of them were recruited after December 7, 2024, basically, you cannot expect me to come and inherit such mess and continue with it.
“Today, I have authorised the termination of a few more at Ghana Post, almost a hundred that were done post December 7, 2024, and we’ll continue this rationalization,” he stated.
The communications minister further reaffirmed his commitment to restructuring Ghana Post to improve efficiency and productivity.
“I will clean up the ministry, make sure it is lean and efficient and carries out its work,” he added.
Meanwhile, Davis Ansah Opoku, the Member of Parliament for Mpraeso, has criticised Samuel Nartey George over the dismissals.
He accused the minister of overstepping his authority and also criticised President John Dramani Mahama’s administration’s “resetting theme” and called the decision inappropriate.
Ansah Opoku said that the dismissed employees were not politically appointed but had undergone the appropriate recruitment processes prior to their employment.
He also questioned the precedent this decision sets for the country.
“I think the minister is overstepping his bounds, and I wonder if this whole resetting is necessary to the extent that people whose employment dates back before December 7 are even getting their employment terminated.
“These are not political appointments; these are persons who went through the proper HR processes as laid down in these various agencies and got employed. So, what precedent are we setting in this country?” citinewsroom.com quoted him as saying.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
