Staff of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) have backtracked on their allegations against their board chairman Mr. Peter Mac Manu and his family.
According to the staff, all the wild allegations they made against Mr. Manu and his wife, in particular, concerning contract grabbing at the Authority are false and therefore withdraw them.
The staff among a litany of allegations said Mr. Manu’s wife has been rewarded with a juicy ticketing contract and is charging the Authority cut-throat prices.
Mr. Manu described those allegations as “bogus lies” and held a counter press conference to rubbish the claims.
“Some facts have come to our notice which on hindsight, we would not have brought into the public domain against Mr Peter Mac Manu and his family at our press conference.
“We therefore withdraw the allegations against Mr Peter Mac Manu and in particular, his wife and sons and unreservedly apologize to them,” the senior and junior staff Union apologised at a press conference on Friday, 22 June 2018.
Below is their full statement:
On the 24th of May 2018, we invited you to our press conference held at the Junior Staff Club House in Takoradi.
At the press conference, we levelled allegations against Mr Peter Mac Manu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GPHA and some members of his family.
We of the Union want to put it on record that we did not call the press conference and level the allegations against the Chairman out of malice.
As a Union and social partner with a common objective of working together with management towards achieving the objectives of GPHA, we had some serious concerns about the happenings in GPHA, which we were not happy about. After the press conference, it has come to our notice that we did not engage management the more as we should have done before holding the press conference.
Some facts have come to our notice which on hindsight, we would not have brought into the public domain against Mr Peter Mac Menu and his family at our press conference.
We therefore withdraw the allegations against Mr Peter Mac Manu and in particular, his wife and sons and unreservedly apologize to them.
Nevertheless, we as a union with a role to protect public interest-will not shirk our responsibility as vatchdogs-of-accountability in the governance of public institutions. We think there must be peace and solidarity with our social partners at the work place to achieve our goals.
We are sorry for the embarrassment and inconvenience our press conference might have caused Mr Peter Mac Manu and members of his family and once again we apologize unreservedly, Thank You for having time to attend this press conference.
Signed
Benjamin Narh, Secretary
Henry Papa Oppong
Keku Armuzuah
Maxwell Kudjoe
Senior and Junior Staff of Local Unions of Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority of Tema and Takoradi
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For God's sake stop insulting the intelligence of Ghanaians. Who is this unanimous individual who has come out to make this statement? We have have seen this severally in this era of image management ***barred word***. Give us a break.
FOO$$LISH union people! Let Mr Mark Manu still sue them. Can not destroy someones reputation, and come back to 'just' say I apologize!
Few against many and vice versa. Where is the truth? Note, the two groups are agents, representing others. By the core flaws of agency theory, none of them should be trusted. The truth is busted. Sorry Ghanaians!
You must all resign from your positions since you are not trustworthy! How can we trust you that you will the right thing for us as a people when you're untruthful ?! Shame on you people!!
THIS IS VERY SHAMEFUL OF THE PORTS AUTHORITY STAFF WHO ENGAGED IN SUCH LIES AND UNFOUNDED ALLEGATION. THE CID MUST STILL INVESTIGATE AND PUNISH THEM FOR THE FALSE ALARM AND MISGUIDED PROPAGANDA. THE POLICE SHOULD USE THE LAW TO PUNISH THE PERPETRATORS OF LIES WHICH COULD CREATE CHAOS TO DISCOURAGE ***barred word*** ALLEGATION THAT SOME STAFF EMPLOY TO SCORE CHEAP POLITICAL GOALS. GHANA IS NOT PROGRESSING AND WE HAVE SWELLING NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYMENT BECAUSE WE KEEP BAD, INCOMPETENT, SABOTEURS AND LAZY PEOPLE AT WORK, WHILE THE YOUNG AND SERIOUS PROSPECTS ARE KEPT OUT OF WORK.
Are we black Africans st*pid or mere hateful and ***barred word*** of hardworking Africans or both? how can you plan organize to denigrate and vilify somebody and turn around to apologize for spewing untruths about others? how do we develope with some mindset to just destroy others because of political affiliation! is the country called Ndc or NPP or Ghana? why do you people work against Ghana in the name of politics for some people's parochial interest! we are just f00**00ls as the whiteman call us ! Blackman is a f000**00l and their own enemies.