Members of the National Food Suppliers Association continued picketing at the National Buffer Stock Company as they slept at the premises to demonstrate their displeasure over 270 million cedis debt owed them.
According to the members of the Association, they will not vacate the premises until they are paid.
Officials of the National Buffer Stock company are yet to comment on the issue.
The National Food Suppliers Association commenced picketing at the premises of the National Food Buffer Stock Company on Tuesday July 4, 2023.
Mr Kweku Amedume, the spokesperson for the Association stated that their action is to drum home the demand for their money since the government has failed to settle the over 2 years’ arrears owed its members.
An initial 14-day ultimatum was issued by the association to the buffer stock company demanding full payments of the outstanding arrears or risk a series of picketing.
“We will be here till our money is paid. We want to drive home the demand for our money which has been with Buffer Stock for over two years now. We’ve done everything possible to get our money paid but we don’t get results. So we intend to picket not only today, we will be here tomorrow and next day till our money is paid,’’ Mr Kweku Amedume told Starr News.
“The government has failed on its promises to give us the money. When we intended to picket the last time there were some few interventions which we complied but nothing has come out till now and that’s why we are picketing. We want to be here till they get us our money,” Mr. Amedome stated.
He continued: “Because we can’t be home now, our home is not convenient because the people that we borrowed to do business are on us. They want to take our properties. The banks want to take our properties so we want to be here because we don’t have comfort in our home anymore. We are talking about 270 million Ghana cedis and this money has spanned over two years.”
Mr Kweku Amedume further stated that interest rates and cost of doing business have all gone up, but their money is the same value after two years.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Solomon Nartey
