A
legal practitioner base in Tamale has stated that there is nothing wrong when
lawyers at the Attorney General department going on strike since they are
public servants. Lawyer Issah Momudu said they are employed through the public
service commission and their conditions of service are governed by their terms
of employment as public servant. According to the Tamale base legal
practitioner, state attorneys must be seen as workers under whose condition of
service a provision would be made for them to go to strike if their grievances
are not met at a certain level. Lawyer Issah Momudu was speaking in an
exclusive interview with Fiila News on the strike by lawyers at the Attorney
General’s department in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo
the regions over unpaid allowances. In a statement pasted at the premises of
the department in Ashanti region, stated that state attorneys at the department
would be embarking on an indefinite strike commencing Wednesday. According to
the lawyers, their clothing, fuel and leave allowances have not been paid for
the last two years. The staff also complains of the lack of logistics. Sources
say the latest action was triggered by reports that their counterparts in Accra
have been paid their allowances. The legal practitioner however admitted not recalling
or hearing state attorneys laying down their tools in his many years of legal
practice describing the situation as strange.
Source:Saaka Alhassan
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