Manasseh Azure Awuni an award-winning investigative journalist has urged the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Youth Employment Authority (YEA), Malik Basintale not to resurrect Zoomlion’s expired thievery contract.
According to Manasseh Azure, the expired contract arrangement between Zoomlion and YEA reveals that Zoomlion receives GHS850 but the workers take home GHS 250 a month.
The investigative journalist noted that only humans with the instincts of wild beasts would allow their fellow Ghanaians to work for a month and go home with only $17 a month.
He noted that Elder Joseph Siaw Agyepong the CEO of Zoomlion and Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies told parliament that the sweepers are paid below the minimum wage because they work 4 hours a day.
In a write-up address to Malik Basintale on X, Manasseh Azure wrote, “Here is evidence that the Zoomlion contract expired before you took office. And your predecessor, who fought it, notified the company. Please, do the needful. Don’t resurrect this thievery. Don’t disappoint the youth who massed up and marched with you in the sun and in the rain during the campaign.
Elder Joseph Siaw Agyepong of THE CHURCH OF PENTECOST told parliament yesterday that the sweepers are paid below the minimum wage because they work 4 hours a day, six days a week”.
He added, “The cleaners of your office don’t work all day, so it does not make sense to pay these people below the minimum wage. That’s the essence of the minimum wage.
Besides, only humans with the instincts of wild beasts would allow their fellow Ghanaians to work for a month and go home with only $17 a month, while the businessman makes millions”.
Manasseh Azure further urged all persons with conscience in the Mahama administration to take note.
“Take note of this, John Dramani Mahama, Shamima Muslim, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Eric Edem Agbana, Osman Abdulai Ayariga, Stan Xoese Dogbe and all persons with conscience in the Mahama administration”, he added.
Meanwhile, Manasseh Awuni has over the years trailed Jospong with all kinds of allegations and stories and pushes for governments to bring the Jospong conglomerate down which has fallen on deaf ears.
See the post below:
Dear Malik Basintale,
Here is evidence that the Zoomlion contract expired before you took office. And your predecessor, who fought it, notified the company. Please, do the needful. Don’t resurrect this thievery. Don’t disappoint the youth who massed up and marched with you in… pic.twitter.com/zlMGarQcsf
— Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure) April 24, 2025
