The aL-hAJJ’s recent revelation that hawks in the opposition New Patriotic Party are now relying on allies in the labor unions to make the country under the John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress administration ungovernable could not after all be mere hearsay.
After its attempts to use sections of the media, some civil society organizations and political pressure groups to pin down the government on charges of widespread corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement, failed, this paper recently reported that hardline elements within the biggest opposition party, have succeeded in conniving with their “friends” in the leadership of labor unions in the country to kick start widespread industrial unrest as last option, aimed at kicking out the Mahama government.
The NPP and their allies in the labor unions, having now realized that the unending fratricidal conflict in the opposition party has made the NPP and its flag bearer, Nana AkufoAddo, unattractive to the Ghanaian electorate ahead of general elections in 2016, have resolved to deploy all possible means, (labor agitations not excluded) to make the government unpopular; thereby exposing it to the wrath of the people which could then lead to popular and violent rebellion akin to the Arab Spring of the Magrib countries.
Their pathetic situation, according a party insider, has further been compounded “by the little-above-average performance of the John Mahama government in most sectors of the economy”. However, now that the ongoing strikes by the Ghana Medical Association, University Teachers Association of Ghana and Government Pharmacists seem not yielding the desired results that should see the early exit of the John Dramani Mahama-led NDC from power, proponents of this dastardly scheme, intelligence reports reaching The aL-hAJJ indicate, have also set in motion how to ‘speak’ in favor of other unions preparing to declare industrial actions.
Confirming The aL-hAJJ’s Thursday, August 6, 2015 publication is a tape recording currently circulating in the media with a voice of a supposed bigwig of NPP addressing a gathering on how they intend to use labor unions and other sinister moves to paralyze the Mahama government.
The tape, among other things, also revealed how NPP intends to recruit one million people from Togo, Burkina Faso and Mali ahead of the 2016 elections.
Sources within the national security apparatus corroborating this paper’s intelligence confirmed that plans are far advanced to get other labor unions to declare strike under very strange and bizarre excuses to consolidate plots to create disaffection for the governing party and make it unpopular ahead of the 2016 polls.
Labor unions likely to join UTAG, Government Pharmacists and the striking doctors include, Judicial Staff Association of Ghana, Teachers and Educational Workers Union of Ghana, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Ghana National Association of Teachers, Trades Union Congress, Nurses and Midwives Council, Mental Nurses Association, State Attorneys, Civil Servants and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana among others.
The NPP’s dream of recapturing power, this paper’s intelligence further unearthed, continues to slim by the day as a result of the numerous ongoing and/or completed projects by government, effective stabilization of the cedi, and the gradual elimination of power crisis christened, Dumsor among others.
These developments coupled with the unending infighting in the NPP and lack of demonstrable leadership by its 2016 presidential candidate, Nana AkufoAddo, many political pundits have unanimously agreed, puts sitting President John Mahama in a comfortable driving seat.
The leadership of GMA last week led the pact by declaring a nationwide withdrawal of services and subsequently, withdrawing emergency services, with threats to resign en mass if their demands for better conditions of service were not met later this month.
According to the president of GMA, Dr Opoku Adusei, their demand for improved conditions of service is meant to be factored into the 2016 budget and not to take immediate effect. Following in their footsteps seeking to create disaffection for government was UTAG whose leaders also declared indefinite strike over book and research allowances which the Education Ministry explained, was in the process of redeeming, and government pharmacists.
However, following the inability of the GMA, Government Pharmacists and UTAG’s strikes to dampen the spirit of the people and set them on collision path with government, The aL-hAJJ is well informed that other union leaders have been contacted to put more pressure on government. Stay tuned
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