Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, has been asked to stop from labeling all public sector personnel as overpaid, according to a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana.
Prof. Annim noted in his inaugural presentation at the University of Cape Coast last Thursday that while public sector worker wages averaged around GH3,420, output was around GH1,420, less than half of the earnings.
Professor Ransford Gyampo, speaking on Joy FM's Top Story on Monday, claimed that lumping all diverse sectors of public workers together is dishonest and academically hypocritical.
In an interview with JoyNews, he disaggregated public sector personnel.
According to him, there are three types of public sector employees: those who are appointed without regard for Max Weber's idea of meritocracy, those who are appointed based on meritocracy, and those who are appointed based on Article 71 office holders and political appointments. As a result, lumping the two groups together is unjust.
"Any serious scholar understands that when it comes to public workers, they are not always a homogeneous group," he added. "It is thus ridiculous for anybody to attempt to mix all public servants together and make such a broad judgement."
"An claim like this that groups all public sector workers together and says they earn more than they create can only come from a political scholar," he believes.
As a result, he demanded an investigation of the census reports prepared under Prof. Annim's supervision. He stated that this is because it's possible that "they don't speak to reality."
Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, the Government Statistician, has remarked that workers in the public sector are frequently compensated for their labor.
According to the Government Statistician, public sector workers are paid twice as much as private sector workers.
As a result, he has proposed the establishment of a Public Productivity Committee of Parliament, which would function similarly to the Public Accounts Committee and ensure that Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the public sector as a whole produce output that is commensurate with their earnings.
Prof Gyampo said that the Government Statistician's comment was a disrespect to those who molded him into the person he is today.
"First and foremost, he must be aware that he was created by us. He was created by public workers acting as teachers." He went on to call the talk the "worst dismal inaugural lecture" he'd ever heard.
According to him, any scholar making assertions "that palpably disregard the toil and hard labor of some genuine public servants" is cruel, and he is insulted by such a remark.
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