{"id":273668,"date":"2011-01-12T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46669"},"modified":"2011-01-12T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:41:44","slug":"nadmo-coordinators-threaten-to-vaccate-post-in-protest-against-unpaid-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/12\/nadmo-coordinators-threaten-to-vaccate-post-in-protest-against-unpaid-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"NADMO Coordinators threaten to vaccate post in protest against unpaid salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some coordinators of the National Disaster Management Organization  (NADMO) in the Ashanti and Central Regions are contemplating abandoning  their posts because they have not been paid since their appointment  since September 2009.<br \/>\nThey are hoping to seek other ventures to earn a livelihood.<br \/>\nSome  of the forty-four coordinators in the two regions say their inability  to receive salary has placed their families in shambles.<br \/>\nAccording  to them, continuing to work for NADMO in the name of managing disasters  where they themselves cannot manage their homes is the most disservice.<br \/>\nTwenty seven of the coordinators work in the Ashanti region alone with seventeen representing the Central region.<br \/>\nMajority  of the Coordinators, until their appointment two years ago were  teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service while others worked for  the Ghana Health Service among others.<br \/>\nBut they have had to  battle with the sour side of life as for instance, spouses of male  coordinators continue to verbally assault them consistently for their  inability to perform their fatherly roles.<br \/>\nNhyira Fm  investigations can confirm two coordinators in the Ashanti region alone  have been ejected by their partners for their inability to meet their  families\u2019 financial needs.<br \/>\nThey are also saddled with other  challenges including, poor transportation system, delayed release of  monthly stipend of two hundred Ghana cedis to run their offices and  hijacking of  relief items by some District and Municipal Chief  Executives.<br \/>\n<strong>Living in hell<\/strong><br \/>\nAn appointment letter  for the coordinators signed by the National Coordinator of NADMO Kofi  Portuphy dated 1st September 2009 reads:  You are hereby appointed to  the position of Deputy Chief Disaster Control Officer. You would be paid  an amount of three thousand two hundred and sixty three Ghana cedis per  anum in salaries.<br \/>\nBut the coordinators are afraid to go public  because of fear of being victimized and oath of secrecy they took before  assuming office.<br \/>\n&#8220;It\u2019s very appalling because we were enjoying  life at its best. Me and my colleagues were working for Ghana Education  Service, Ministry of Health and some were into consultancy. Can you  imagine what has happened,&#8221; an aggrieved coordinator noted.<br \/>\nLife without salaries within the past years has been described by the coordinators as hell.<br \/>\n&#8220;Look  at me, as a head of a family of four; I cannot even put bread and  butter on the table for my family and I am constantly harassed by my  wife who has threatened to leave me if I don\u2019t perform my  responsibilities as man,&#8221; one of the aggrieved officials explained  as  he shook his head.<br \/>\n<strong>Managing disasters on empty stomachs<\/strong><br \/>\nThey  say continuing to work for National Disaster Management Organization in  the name of managing disasters where they themselves cannot manage  their homes is the most disservice.<br \/>\nSome of the coordinators believe the time to quit NADMO is now before things get out of hand.<br \/>\n&#8220;I  cannot continue to live this way all in the name of managing  disaster\u2026Majority of my colleagues also feel that the time has come for  us to leave NADMO&#8221; he said in anguish.<br \/>\nThe Ashanti Regional  NADMO Coordinator, Bulamatari Mohammed confirmed the co-coordinators  have not been paid their salaries since their appointment.<br \/>\nHe argues the problem is not only peculiar to NADMO alone, but other public sectors.<br \/>\nAccording  to him, &#8220;it is no wonder that NADMO has also fallen into that kind of  trench because we are under the public sector department&#8221;.<br \/>\nAlhaji Bulamatari attributes the delay to what he describes as technical challenges.<br \/>\n&#8220;The  (national office) had wanted to facilitate the payment before the close  of the year. I know very well that everybody will be settled by the end  of this month,&#8221; Alhaji Bulamatari said.<br \/>\nStory by Ohemeng Tawiah\/Nhyira Fm-Kumasi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some coordinators of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in the Ashanti and Central Regions are contemplating abandoning their posts because they have not been paid since their appointment since September 2009. They are hoping to seek other ventures to earn a livelihood. 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