{"id":140189,"date":"2024-01-17T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/17\/i-was-being-a-citizen-not-a-spectator-interdicted-tor-worker\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:14:36","slug":"i-was-being-a-citizen-not-a-spectator-interdicted-tor-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/17\/i-was-being-a-citizen-not-a-spectator-interdicted-tor-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"I was being a citizen not a spectator \u2013 Interdicted TOR worker \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the interdicted executives of the\u00a0General Transport Petroleum Chemical Workers Union\u00a0(GTPCWU)\u00a0Anthony Joojo Koomson, says he was not wrong to disclose certain information about Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Torentco deal to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Koomson is one of two executives of the union who were interdicted by the Board of Directors of TOR over the disclosure of classified information between Torentco and TOR deal in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Koomson, he made those disclosures because the President had encouraged everyone to always speak up when something is wrong somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to<strong>\u00a0JoyNews<\/strong>, he said \u201cSo, from the premise of the President\u2019s inaugural speech that he wants all Ghanaians to be citizens and not spectators, we thought we need to go a step further to make Ghanaians know what is happening at TOR and allow all stakeholders to have access to the issue or the information that we have officially gotten from the Registrar General\u2019s outfit concerning the incorporation of the Tema Energy and Processing Limited and the directors behind the TOR workers,\u201d he said.<audio src=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ANTHONY-TOR.mp3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He explained that those who were concerned about management executing certain things in the right way were interdicted using a code that was misinterpreted.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, GTPCWU has threatened an industrial action over the interdiction and the deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a>Myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interdicted executives of the\u00a0General Transport Petroleum Chemical Workers Union\u00a0(GTPCWU)\u00a0Anthony Joojo Koomson, says he was not wrong to disclose certain information about Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Torentco deal to the public. 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