The acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), Margaret Ansei, has abruptly terminated the appointments of all district coordinators across the country, affecting all 218 officers.
Citi News has reviewed three internal memos issued by the acting CEO between August and December 2025.
The first memo, dated August 27, reminded the coordinators that their “contract with GEA is subject to renewal annually” and that their performance was under assessment.
A second memo, issued on October 27, stated that “your contract under the BIZBOX project ended on 31ST August 2025” and indicated that “the decision in respect of your contract renewal is ongoing and would be communicated to you in due course”.
However, a third memo dated December 3, 2025, directed regional managers of Business Advisory Centers and Business Resource Centers to ensure that “all outgone district coordinators cease coming to work with immediate effect”. It further instructed managers to ensure that “newly recruited district coordinators be provided with the necessary support and guidance needed to work effectively.”
Despite these directives, several district coordinators who were employed as far back as 2023 say they have not received any official notice terminating their appointments.
One coordinator who spoke anonymously to Citi News said, “all correspondences we received from management never suggested that our appointment has been terminated we have therefore been taken by surprise.”
The source added that “unknown to us other candidates have been interviewed, offered appointments to replace us as if we are not Ghanaians who deserve to be employed too. Sadly, some of us are going back to the pool of unemployed graduates.
“I stayed home after graduating in 2016 until 2023 and now that I have a job the government has decided to terminate my appointment without any justification.”
The coordinator also revealed that the affected officers have not been paid their November salaries despite reporting to work.
“As I speak with you, our November salaries are in arrears. We do not know when we are going to be paid. We were reporting because we had received no instruction to cease working.”
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