GPHA ex-workers’ leader advises colleagues not to give donation to impostors

• Sep 19, 2024

The leader of the over four thousand former workers of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) who were retrenched in 2002 without being paid their severance benefits has urged his colleagues to be wary of impostors who are perambulating Ashaiman, a suburb of Accra, ostensibly soliciting for funds to pay lawyers to fight their case.

In an interview with journalists in Accra, Mr. Stephen Ashitey Adjei, alias Moshake, said he has not sanctioned any fundraising to pay legal fees and that anybody who solicits for funds in his name is only a dupe and an impostor.

He underscored that since then, he has been leading the cause of the ex-workers outside of the courts and has therefore never, since the last day in court over the issue, asked anybody to contribute money for legal fees.

“Whoever is asking for contributions towards supposed legal fees for our issue, is only a fraudster and a dupe who is milking these people who have already suffered so much injustice at the hands of the government of Ghana.

“I will therefore advise my colleagues across the country, but especially in Ashaiman, to cause the arrest of any such heartless and insensitive dupe. And they should know that I have not sanctioned any such fundraising,” Moshake added.

The advice from Moshake comes in the wake of revelations that there are some persons going around in Ashaiman soliciting for funds from some of the ex-workers supposedly to pool up money for legal fees.

These fraudsters, who have not been anywhere close to the frontlines of the struggle for justice in the past 22 years, have sometimes even claimed that they have the consent of the other ex-workers in Takoradi and Tema to receive the donations.

Moshake who has had the ex-workers mandate as leader since 2003, says he is shocked by the callousness of dupes, pointing out that these colleagues that they are duping have already suffered so much injustice.

Most of these helpless victims of the state have already lost everything, how could you, in good conscience still extort money from them in this way?”