The former CEO of the National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP) Kofi Ofosu Nkansah has stated the new CEO of NEIP Eric Adjei has done nothing wrong in suspending NEIP staff.
In a memo dated Friday, February 21, management of the programme stated, “Management has been instructed to adhere strictly to due process in regularising staff employment to prevent further legal complications.”
“Additionally, all staff who are in possession of property belonging to NEIP are required to hand them over to the HR Officer by close of work on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.”
“Failure to do so will be considered as deliberate stealing of such items,” the statement read.
According to Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, Eric Adjei the CEO has stated he is regularising staff at the NEIP.
Speaking on radio XYZ, Kofi Ofosu Nkansah stated, “When we do monthly payments we state in the memo this is an allowance on this and that and then we approve and the payee is deducted and sent to GRA so it is as simple as that.
When we took over the government in 2017, agencies like the Petroleum Commission even GNPC had a similar arrangement for contract staff they were not paying all that benefit. It is at the discretion of the CEO, if the CEO wants to sack the person you don’t have a permanent status and legal backing in any case those with permanent status are even going home”, he added.
The former CEO of NEIP added, “It is the CEO’s discretion, I don’t see any wrong in what he has done, he said he is regularizing it, I think how it was managed brought out all this noise because he has come to explain that he has not sacked anyone, he is putting it on hold to regularize it. It is an internal arrangement. Eric says he is going to regularize some of them and there is nothing wrong with that he is the CEO and you cannot fault him for it”.
Meanwhile, Eric Adjei, CEO of the National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP) has revealed he did not sack anyone at the NEIP.
Speaking in an interview, Eric Adjei stated, “ Yes, I have said they should go home for temporal it is not a dismissal, did you read the document, I have not sacked anyone”.
He added, “The criminality the employee committed and the employer also, because you have been employed for six years you were not paying tax, it is a criminal offence. Cheques were being issued to employers for them to go and withdraw through that they don’t pay tax, they escape all the avenues, and ask those who have worked there for five to six years which of them have a payslip.
I have not come to punish anyone I just came for the right things to be done. Instead of doing the right things they are out there claiming I have sacked their people, and I am looking for a way to employ NDC people even granted if I take the NDC people are they not Ghanaians?”, Eric Adjei stated.
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Eric Adjei has done nothing wrong in suspending NEIP staff. – Npp FMR CEO Kofi Ofosu Nkansah https://t.co/6bpSf9fQAp pic.twitter.com/p5eRH2azQ9
— KOJO DYNAMIC 𓃵 (@AnnanPerry) February 24, 2025
