{"id":1232527,"date":"2022-10-24T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/workers-fear-imminent-collapse-of-ghana-railway-company-ltd\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T07:45:27","slug":"workers-fear-imminent-collapse-of-ghana-railway-company-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/workers-fear-imminent-collapse-of-ghana-railway-company-ltd\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers fear imminent collapse of Ghana Railway Company Ltd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"434\"  alt=\"\" title=\"John-Peter-Amewu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Peter-Amewu-696x434.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"434\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/John-Peter-Amewu-696x434.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"John-Peter-Amewu\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Peter Amewu is the Minister of Railway Development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Workers of the Ghana Railway Company Limited have raised red flags over the possible collapse of the company in the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a press release signed by the General Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, Mr. Goodwill Ntarmah, and sighted by <strong>Connect FM<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Omanbapa<\/em> morning show team, he indicated that the company currently is unable to purchase fuel to run its services since they are cash-trapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Railway Workers Union brings to the attention of all that, the GRCL is gradually grinding to a halt. The company currently cannot purchase fuel to run its manganese freight as well as the Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU), a passenger train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, for the past few days all the freight trains as well as the DMU\u2019s have been parked,\u201d part of the release indicated.<\/p>\n<p>He added that August and September salaries of some workers have not been paid and if the trend should continue, activities of the company will come to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside of the inability to purchase fuel, is the overwhelming debt burden of the company including the non-payment of salaries to some staff from August and the general staff from September as well as workers welfare dues, SSNIT, Credit Union contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The workers are calling on the president to immediately release funds to enable the company run its services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kindly call on the President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately direct the release of the revenue realized from the auctioning of the scrap metals of GRCL to purchase fuel and other operational challenges to save GRCL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to place on record that the GRCL is a state institution and everything possible must be done to salvage it from total collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Eric Nana Gyetuah|Connect FM|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Peter Amewu is the Minister of Railway Development Workers of the Ghana Railway Company Limited have raised red flags over the possible collapse of the company in the near future. In a press release signed by the General Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, Mr. Goodwill Ntarmah, and sighted by Connect FM\u2019s Omanbapa morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1324,2194,3169,85,1444,3814,1869],"class_list":["post-1232527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-collapse","tag-company","tag-fear","tag-ghana","tag-imminent","tag-railway","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}