The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has addressed concerns about delayed allowance payments to Zoomlion workers under the Youth Employment Agency, attributing the issue to the government’s delay in releasing funds for clearing arrears.
Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday, April 23, Dr. Agyepong said, “YEA fixes the fee, not us. The Agency, bring the workers; it’s not Zoomlion. I humbly want to place on record that the hours they work are three hours. Minimum is 4 hours. So when you equate it to the minimum wage of 258gh for three hours, you will understand. We give them other skills to get other businesses.”
The Chairman of the Sanitation and Water Resources Committee, John Oti Bless, announced that the CEO of the Youth Employment Agency has been summoned to appear before the committee regarding concerns over the remuneration of Zoomlion Ghana workers.
During a visit to the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant by the Sanitation and Water Resources Committee of Parliament, Dr. Agyepong called for the reintroduction of the ‘Operation Clean Your Frontage Taskforce’ to help address sanitation challenges in the country.
He said enforcing sanitation by-laws through the task force would complement the efforts of waste management firms like Zoomlion Ghana.
Dr. Agyepong made this call, noting that without the enforcement of sanitation by-laws, waste management services would not be fully effective.
“I’m pleading that we need this task force. When it’s raining, people will just come out of their houses and dump waste. Rwanda is Rwanda because there are by-laws, Singapore, Dubai, there are by-laws, you can’t just do things anyhow. We have the capacity, equipment, experience and the people, but we don’t have the task force,” he stated.
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