Head of the Local Government Service(LGS), Dr Nana Ato Arthur, has disclosed that some administrative officers will be laid off in the coming days.
This was contained in a speech delivered at the National Conference of Ghana National Association of Local Government Service Administrators(GALGA) at Tamale in the Northern Region.
He said the LGS is doing this exercise because the sector is bloated with more administrative officers in the assemblies than the available work, a situation he described as worrying.
According to him, sometimes about 10 or more officers are employed to work in a District or Municipal Assembly alone, resulting in “poor service delivery” in the sector.
However, while reacting to the news, the immediate past Secretary of GALGA, Mr Andrew Asare Bediako, said the association would resist any attempts to render their members jobless.
According to Mr Bediako, the administrative officers are not responsible for the employment of local government workers in the various District Assemblies and, therefore, should not be made to suffer for the bloating in the sector.
He, therefore, suggested that the Local Government Service should organise training workshops for the officers instead.
He added that these training workshops would enhance the officers’ skillset and improve the assemblies’ productivity.