PURC staff petition Chief of Staff over 'corrupt' Management

Nana Yaa Jantuah and Samuel Sarpong

Workers of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) are on a collision course with Management over a plethora of allegations including financial malfeasance, victimization and cronyism.

Chairman of the workers union Alhaji Abukari Jabaru disclosed that a petition has been presented to the Chief of Staff, Frema Osei Opare chronicling the sins of management.

It would be recalled that the Member of Parliament for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region Hon. Kennedy Agyapong had accused the management of PURC of a awarding a dubious contract to a US based firm for a software on Oman FM few weeks ago.

He accused the Executive Secretary of PURC Samuel Sarpong of transferring huge sums of monies belonging to PURC into his personal account in one of the banks in the country.

Alhaji Bakari who corroborated the claims of Assin Central MP said, under the leadership of the Executive Secretary Samuel Sarpong, there have been ill-motivated transfers of some managers deemed critical of management.

"We had an internal auditor who was transferred because he offered professional advice. We had an Accounts manager who was transferred because he gave professional advice", he cited.

The head of finance carried out instructions to transfer nearly half a million into the account of the Executive Secretary.

But after he refused to carry out further instructions he believed were wrong, he was transferred, the Union Chairman claimed.

Mr. Sarpong has insisted it was rather the accountant who advised and subsequently lodged the said amount in his personal account.

The Union Chairman said staff are willing to open up to any independent inquiry into the allegations leveled against any employee of the PURC.

But the Union would not want to discuss the Commissions troubles in the media because the utility regulator is a 'sensitive' state institution.

He said since the PURC was set up in 1997, it has never been in the media for such bad news.

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