PAY US OUR OUTSTANDING ALLOWANCES (PAGE 25)

THIRTY sanitation guards of the Environmental Health module of the National Youth and Employment Programme (NYEP) of the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) have appealed to the authorities to pay them their outstanding allowances that have been in arrears for six months.
They have also urged the authorities to regularise their appointments by issuing them with appointment letters, since they have worked for 15 months without any appointment letter.
This, they explained, would enable them to be paid salaries, instead of allowances, since personnel under other modules who had been given appointment letters were being paid salaries and not allowances.
Some of the affected personnel, led by their spokesperson, Mr Frederick Mensah, told the Daily Graphic that when they were recruited, they were made to understand that they would be paid monthly allowances of GH¢70, but this had not been regular.
According to Mr Mensah, the sanitation guards wanted their salaries to be paid through the banks.
"Some of the personnel under other modules of the programme are receiving salaries and not allowances," he said.
The spokesperson explained that they knew that they were employed under the NYEP, but when the problem of non-payment of the allowances started and they contacted their respective Sekondi Sub-metro and Takoradi Sub-metro Co-ordinators of the NYEP, they were told that they were no more under the NYEP, but were rather under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment.
"So, we do not know where we belong, whether our allowances are coming from the ministry or from the NYEP," he said, adding that "so as we speak now, we don’t know our fate".