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Members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), have called off the three-week strike over the "political neutrality allowance".

This is following a directive from the Ministry of Finance to the Controller and Accountant General to pay the neutrality allowance.

The Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Dr Isaac Bampoe Addo, announced the new decision at a press conference in Accra Thursday [May 12, 2022.]

He said CLOGSAG decided to call off the strike after the Ministry of Finance directed the Controller and Accountant General to effect the payment of the neutrality allowance.

“The rationale to step down the industrial action was based on the fact that the demand for the Ministry of Finance to direct the Controller and Accountant General to effect payment of the agreed allowance has been met on 11 May, 2022,” he said.

Consequently, he directed all members of CLOGSAG to return to work by Monday, May 16, 2022. 

CLOGSAG and the government agreed in January 2022 that civil servants deserved to be paid neutrality allowance for not engaging in partisan political activities.

The government committed to the agreement at the negotiation table but CLOGSAG insisted that the government was refusing to pay and hence embarked on the strike.

Calling off the strike Dr Bampoe Addo said  this was only "half time" of the strike and that they were calling it off to see what will happen at the end of May 2022.