By Joseph Tumbey
An Employees of the Ministry of Information Culture Affairs and Tourism MICAT staged a massive protest over the weekend for low salaries and blamed their former Minister now Commissioner of the Maritime Authority, Mr. Eugene Nagbeh for flooding the Ministry payroll with ghost names during his tenure and recommending auditing in salaries disparity.
On Thursday November 11,2022. Workers of the Ministry seized the facility and were completely dressed in black demanding salaries increment from the head of State with his Finance Minister, President George Weah and Samuel D.Tweh Jr. respectively.
Speaking with one of the protesters who claimed to be the Deputy Manager from the Central Printing Incorporated CPI of the Ministry, Mr. Moses P. Roberts; he said they have realized a huge salary disparity and recommended an immediate auditing to clean ghost names on the payroll
According to him, when Eugene Nagbeh took over the Ministry in 2016 to 2020, he brought in several names outside the Ministry including: the National team “Lonestar” player, Christopher Wleh on the Ministry payroll.
” The people Eugene brought are still being paid while employees at the Ministry with profession and technical skills are underpaid.
Those who are supposed to receive UD$ 300 are taking US$150 while some people who are supposed to be paid US$800 are being paid with UD$180″, the Deputy Director of CPI Mr Moses P. Roberts explained.
The protesters in loud voices however demanded the Government to immediately conduct an audit in their salaries disparity to remove ghosts’ names on their payroll and increase their salaries according to their positions and qualifications.
According to them, there is no good government in the World where the Civil Servants salaries are cut while non-employees of the agency or Minister are paid by the Ministry.
“These things must end today, we are not moving until our needs can be addressed”, the protesters told reporters at the scene.
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