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No one has been Sacked- Transition Team claims

Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

 

Accra, Jan 13, Ghanadot - Mr. Alex Segbefia, member of the Government Transitional Team has denied media reports that 30 civil servants have been sacked because of doubts over their political affiliation.

 
According to him, he has not received any reports from any member of the Transitional Team that such development has taken place, thus he will consult with the members to verify whether the reports were true.

He said the team does not have such powers to sack anyone from his post unless they have been given such orders.

 
"No body in the Transition Team has be given any extra duty to anyone to go and collect anything from anyone".

But according to the Daily Guide newspaper, in its Tuesday, January 13, 2009 edition “thirty Civil Servants have been sacked on the orders of the transition team set up by President John Evans Atta Mills.

The dismissed civil servants were A5 Foreign Service officers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who had received their appointment letters and had been officially sworn into office.”

Ministry sources told the paper the Mills' Transition Team Sub-Committee on Foreign Affairs had expressed doubts about the political affiliation of the said civil servants and thus directed that their appointments be terminated with immediate effect.

The paper said as part of the admission requirements, the civil servants were made to write an entrance examination in May 2007 after which they were interviewed for the positions in February 2008.

They eventually received their official appointment letters on December 1, 2008 and were sworn into office on January 5 this year. 

In contrast to what Mr. Segbefia said about no order to dismiss civil servants existing, Dr. Tony Aidoo, secretary of the Government Transition Sub-Committee on Foreign Affairs, said that some appointments for civil servants of the Foreign Ministry have been suspended.

The decision to suspend the appointments, said Dr Aidoo, was was made based on irregularities in the selection process.

Reading from the report of the selection board of the A5 Foreign Service officers, Dr. Aidoo said out of the about 140 candidates interviewed for the job, the interview panel recommended the first 30 who obtained the highest marks.

According to him, not only did the minister increase this number to 40, he also disregarded the names recommended by the panel and selected persons who did make the pass mark of 70 per cent.

Dr. Aidoo said based on these irregularities, the appointments were suspended to allow for further investigations into the issues. He gave the assurance that after the investigations those who deserve to be engaged will be appointed.

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