PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS HIT KSI STREETS

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A section of the Ghanaian public sector workers this morning took to the streets of Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital.
  
The street protest is in furtherance of their counter-suit against the government over misunderstandings regarding the management of Tier Two of their Pension under the new Pensions law, Act 766.

The workers marched through some of the major streets of Kumasi through the central business district of Adum, then the Harper Road through the KMA-Ridge road before ending at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council where they presented their written petition to a representative of the government for attention.

The demonstrators, clad in mourning cloth to signify their concerns, marched amidst brass band music.
 Others held placards with various messages to communicate their concerns and what they want to be done by government. 
 However, one thing that is not clear about the street protest is the real object.

Already, these aggrieved workers have filed a counter-suit at an Accra High Court seeking annulment of earlier decisions taken by the National Pensions Regulatory Authority, NPRA regarding the selection of managers of Tier Two of workers Pensions.
Hearing of the matter is yet to start and it was hoped that once the workers had taken that decision, due process would be followed to bring finality to the matter.

Government had earlier sought and granted an Interlocutory Injunction to restrain the workers from continuing with their industrial action over the same matter.

Later, following a threat by the workers to resume the strike upon the expiration of the Injunction, government has gone back to court seeking for a perpetual injunction against and general damages anymore strikes by the workers in relation to the matter.

Therefore, the question that is begging for an answer is what really the object of the planned series of street protest, if the workers have petitioned the law courts.

Is it to compel the court to rule in their favour, twist the arms of the government to yield to their demands or just to cause damage to the government and productivity?

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