The Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), has finally suspended their over one-month-old nationwide strike.
According to CLOGSAG, the suspension of the strike action follows a National Executive Council (NEC) decision at an emergency meeting held on March 28, 2025.
The Executive Secretary Isaac Bampoe Addo, in a statement issued, revealed the suspension will allow for further engagements to resolve the standoff.
The statement further directed CLOGSAG members to return to work on Wednesday, 2nd April 2025.
Part of the statement reads, “In this regard, CLOGSAG entreats staff of the Civil Service and the Local Government Service to resume work on Wednesday, 2nd April 2025”.
The Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG) began a nationwide strike on February 20 after the John Mahama administration refused to heed their earlier warning to remove the appointment of Samuel Adom Botchway as the Registrar of the Births and Deaths Registry.
According to CLOGSAG, Samuel Adom Botchway a politically exposed person is still at post despite reports suggesting John Mahama had bowed to pressure to reassign him.
Speaking in an interview Isaac Bampoe Addo stated, “We had information that on the 17th February, he went for budget hearing in the name of Birth and Death Registry, and we think this is not proper and we think the issue has to be re looked at”.
“Because we have stated clearly that Mr. Botchwey as a former DCE and as an activist of NDC cannot be the Registrar of Birth and Deaths, the Supreme Court is very clear you cannot do politics and become a Civil Servant”, he added.
Isaac Bampoe Addo further revealed their members have been dismissed over the years for veering into politics.
“Our members have been dismissed for veering into politics, about thirty for the past five years. So why should politicians with impunity come into the Civil Service and think it should be normal. We are resetting Ghana, all we are asking for Birth and Death Registry is a Civil Service institution and must be run as such,”
“We are asking all our members to sit in the house, we are about seventy thousand we are looking at Ghana and we want to reset Ghana and start fresh”, he added.
See the statement below:
See the statement below:
