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No bonus for the NDC workers this Christmas

Dec 19, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Yesterday, I was informed that none of the workers at the NDCs across the country will be receiving bonuses this Christmas. Letters were sent in the traditional way to the Local Government Commission (LGC) by the NDCs, stating the amount of monies intended and seeking permission from the LGC to disburse as bonuses to the workers – a common practice for all the years gone by. Lo and Behold! Correspondence were received from the LGC that no bonuses should be paid to workers but rather these funds requested should be used to provide services to the residents. This is after continuing in the tradition of approving bonuses to the NDC workers from 2015 to 2018. This year, with elections less than three months away, the Coalition, through the LGC, has decided to take away this little fruit (bonus) that the workers have become so accustomed to at Christmas time. How does that resonate to the “good life” promised by the Coalition? You have to cringe at this deranged logic. No wonder the opposition leader said that the most valuable election campaigner for the PPP is the Coalition Government and the president. Why would the Government “shoot itself in the foot” by taking away a few crumbs (bonuses) from these lowly paid workers with elections three months away?
How should these workers and their families respond to the campaign for the re-election of President Granger and the Coalition?

Rudolph Singh

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