Nicholas Ofori Obeng Twum, the Registrar-Public General's Department's Relations Officer, has stated that leaders of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) had not been consulted on how to proceed with the strike.
Following the government's failure to pay the neutrality allowance as promised in January, members of the CLOGSAG lay down their tools on Thursday, April 21, 2022.
The neutrality allowance is intended to prevent civil and municipal government employees from engaging in politics while working in their respective offices.
Mr. Obeng Twum stated CLOGSAG is "still waiting as to when the strike would be called off" in an interview on Thursday's Midday News. "Right now, I have no idea." We are simply following our bosses' orders, and no communication has taken place as of yet," he explained.
He emphasized that all manual operations and certifications at the Registrar-Department General's have been suspended as a result of the strike, and that clients are not permitted to enter the premises.
"We do a number of things," he said, "and all of these activities have been blocked, such as marriage registration and intellectual property registration." To lessen the impact of the crisis, he suggested that "our clients might use the online portals for their registration and business renewals."
"Sole proprietorship businesses can still renew their businesses by dialing *222#," he added.
Meanwhile, two weeks into CLOGSAG's strike, thousands of Ghanaians continue to be affected by the shutdown of government offices.
JoyNews took a brief tour of various government offices near the Ministries enclave and discovered that they are still vacant.
These offices offered important services to both the government and the general public. However, these services have been curtailed. The narrative is the same in the Registrar-Department. General's Those attempting to register their firms or renew their permits were denied.