Some suspended workers of the Ghana Water Limited (GWL) recruited under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo led administration have petitioned the John Dramani Mahama government through the Ag. Managing Director of the organization, Adam Mutawakilu to be reinstated.
The disgruntled group said they were unjustifiable asked to go home after going through all the legal public sector recruitment processes and duly given appointment letters to serve the nation.
”We, the undersigned, humbly and respectfully submit this petition to your good office, pleading for your urgent intervention regarding our suspension as newly recruited employees of Ghana Water Limited (GWL), which took effect on the 11th of February, 2025.
”Our recruitment process began as far back as 2019, with formal advertisement in February 2024, aptitude tests in August 2024, and interviews in September 2024. After successfully meeting all requirements, we were issued appointment letters dated 15th November 2024. We dutifully underwent medical examinations, orientation sessions, and were posted across the country to commence work” the group revealed.
The protesters march through some principal streets of Accra on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, to draw the government’s attention to the situation and mount pressure for their reinstatement.
The petitioners noted in a statement jointly signed by their leaders and copied to The Custodian Online, noted some of their colleagues relocated from their homes to unfamiliar regions, taking on heavy financial burdens and some borrowing monies from family and friends to pay rent, purchase necessities, in order to “sustain ourselves believing in good faith that our salaries would soon bring relief.”
According to them, some even resigned from stable jobs to commit fully to serving the nation through the Ghana Water Limited.
”Yet, painfully, from November 2024 until our suspension in February 2025, not a single cedi has been paid to us not even for the work we had already done. To make matters worse, we have endured almost eight (8) months of suspension without pay. This situation has left many of us destitute, unable to provide for our families, sinking deeper into debt, and enduring untold psychological trauma. Some colleagues can no longer afford to pay their rent and face eviction, others are struggling to provide for their children’s school fees, while others have had to forgo medical care because they simply cannot afford it” they lamented.
The group posited that this treatment is not only disheartening but also contrary to the laws of our land, quoting the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651), Section 62(2) which clearly states that “an employee suspended from work is entitled to his or her remuneration unless otherwise provided in the contract of employment.”
This they argue, violates the statutory protection and has stripped them of their dignity as workers and as human beings.
They also lamented that, “What breaks our hearts even more is the information reaching us that new recruitments have been carried out to fill the very positions for which we were duly appointed and subsequently suspended. This makes us feel discarded, forgotten, and treated as though our sacrifices and commitments counted for nothing.”