Workers with the Metro Mass Transit Ltd say they will push through all the way up to the President to get their Board Chair removed after a statement from the Transport Minister indicated she is powerless to do so.

They fear that the outcome of a Board meeting to discuss their grievances is likely to be biased if the Board Chair sits in the meeting.

“If the Board chairman is around we are doubting that a good job will be done…” General Secretary of the Petroleum, Transport, and Chemical Workers Union, Iddrisu Fuseini told Joy News.

The meeting is to be held at the insistence of the Transport Minister as part of agreements with the workers who called off a nationwide strike which lasted six hours today.

Transport minister Dzifa Ativor with the workers

The Transport Minister has promised to look into the petition from the workers and respond in 14 days.

But a key demand in the petition which the Minister said was “beyond” her, called for the dismissal of the Board Chair, Osabarima Ansah Sasraku III and Deputy Managing Director, John Awuku Duazah.

The two have been accused respectively of supervising the award of contracts to his own company during tenders and being behind the disappearance of 12 MMT buses.

They have both flatly denied the accusation.

The workers have chosen to “resort to a higher body” as they plot their next move to get the two to step aside for a probe into the management of MMT.

General Secretary of the Petroleum, Transport, and Chemical Workers Union Iddrisu Fuseini has said they will petition the President over their concerns.

“The Union will still pursue and ensure that the Board Chairman step aside for a fair [hearing]”

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