‘Don’t harden your heart’ – Manasseh Azure’s Christmas message to Akufo-Addo
Manasseh Awuni Azure has sent a touching Christmas message to President Akufo-Addo, asking him not to “harden his heart”.
The comment is an attempt by the ace journalist to address the low salaries paid to cleaners who work at the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across the country.
The investigative journalist in his message revealed that each cleaner earns only GH₵180 for the services he/she renders to the state.
He said government pays the cleaners through Zoomlion instead of paying them directly through the assemblies where they do their sweeping job. This arrangement, according to Manasseh, is that the waste management company will take GH₵420 and pay only GH₵180 to the poor sweeper.
Manasseh in his message revealed these cleaners have no health insurance or pension benefit. He chastised the President for failing to do nothing about this “heartless arrangement” he vehemently criticised while in opposition.
“You and your party criticised this wickedness when you were in opposition. In government, you’re continuing it. The truest test of your character is how you treat the vulnerable. I’m appealing to you to end this heartless arrangement so that sweepers can be paid directly” Manasseh wrote.
He, therefore, pleaded with the President not to harden his heart as according to him, he did not come to power to “oppress the poor and enrich a greedy few.”
Read the full Christmas message below:
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