“Some of these workers have wives, children and so on; if these workers in the course of their work have to serve their bosses with tea biscuits and so on and they partake in it, they are not criminals, they are not thieves and they cannot be responsible for the current state of the economy…” says the managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr.
Kwesi Pratt was reacting to President Akufo Addo’s assertion that workers need to change their attitude if “we are going to make the changes we all want”
President Akufo Addo during May Day celebration this year said “we have no respect for the hours set aside for work… we pray, we eat, we visit during working hours. We spend hours chatting on the telephone when customers are waiting to be served, thereby increasing our labour costs. We take a week off for every funeral. And then we wonder why we are not competitive. There is the petty stealing of paper, envelopes, tea, milk and other equipment. There is the reckless use of office vehicles. Employees show no inclination to protecting the things that are in the offices and factories and extreme reluctance to stand up for what we know to be right in our workplaces in general,”
Contributing to a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji, Kwesi Pratt said it is ‘unfair’ for workers to be described as thieves or corrupt when they are only finding ‘ways to survive’
“I do not see how you can call ordinary workers who find ingenious ways of extracting a little from those they do business with; I do not see how we can call these workers corrupt. These are workers who have been reduced to begger status and have to find ways of survival…they are only begging for alms to survive and to blame them for their condition or to say that their condition is responsible for the decay in society, I think it is most unfair” he added.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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Aaah eben asem nyi? ebi re wia adze na wo rekeka ese they're doing so to survive. Egya Pratt oo ono due armed robbers nso want to survive ai. epayuo!!! Kwesi Pratt eye manbo yi papa. Wo ho na wo ato! eyimguase akwaaba!!!
Mr.Pratt, you got it wrong again... Are you endorsing pilfering, going to work late yet closing early and so on as acceptable? Then employ me in ya outfit and allow me to do just that and make sure you pay me well too... When will we be serious in this country, simply because we are not paid well? Mr. President, hit harder and let all of us reform. When we travel to the developed world, we work like BULLS yet won't do same for mother Ghana. Start with ya Jubilee House folks and then to the Ministeries and to the regions and districts. Let us embrace change in full and not partially. Thanks...
hahahahahah. Dont mind him folk.From Hausa to Theives. its clear, He doing the bidding of his pay masters. after all his outbursts didnt change the will of the people. we are wise now master kwesi.
Kwasi Pratt's hypocrisy will never end. Anybody like Kwasi pratt will never prosper. Double tongued man. What he says at Radio Gold is different from when he comes to other radio stations. Kwasi this comments will cow Akuffo Addo to be dolling out money to you like the judgement manager, John Dramani.
This hatred will not land kwesi oratt anywhere. I dont blame him however, i nlame PEACE F M who carry every rruuubbbbiiisssh from him to the reading public. Cant PEACE F M spare us for once with all the trashhhh from this man kwesivprat?
Can someone tell Kwesi Pratt to stop that non***se? As a journalist, this is not how to help your country move forward. You don't just criticize anything your president does or says for criticism sake. Mr Pratt is losing his credibility and exposing himself to show Ghanaians that, yes he is an old-school journalist. Times have changed, and what Pratt is advocating is an old-school ideology and that old mentality has never helped Ghana in any any ways. You cannot continue to do the same things and expect different results. Ghana must do something different to move forward.
whatever akuffu addo said is happening at the flagstaff house or jubile house what has done about it. invisible forces misuse of state vehicles to and fro from kyebi the new npp capital of ghana.
MR PRATT GOT IT WRONG BIG TIME. PILFERING CANNOT BE ACCEPTED OR JUSTIFIED ON THE BASIS OF PEOPLE BEING REDUCED TO BEGGARS OR WANTING TO GET SOMETHING FROM THEIR CLIENTS. WHERE FROM PRATT LINE OF THINKING? HOWEVER, I EXPECT THE PRESIDENT TO, IN ADDITION TO ADMONITIONS, MOVE INTO ACTION. AMONG THE PRESIDENT MEN AND WOMEN TO DO THE JOB, HON. HACKMAN OWUSU-AGYEMANG AND PETER AMEWU HAVE SHOWN THAT THEY BUY-INTO THE PRESIDENT'S VISION. AS FOR THE REST, THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT WE ARE WAITING TO COUNT THEM IN OR OUT.
KWESI, COME TO THE UPPER WEST REGION AND SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW GOVERNMENT VEHICLES ARE VIRTUALLY THE BONAFIDE PROPERTY OF DIRECTORS OF DECENTRALIZED DEPARTMENTS.COME ON A WEEK END AND SEE HOW GOV'T VEHICLES ARE USED FOR FUNERALS. YOU CAN GUESS THE FUEL USED.
Kwesi Pratt Paa, I don't blame you. because of your partisan comments, your voice carries nothing anymore apart from making noise. fawasem soorho