News:
June 19, 2017
Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome/Kwabenya and current Speaker of the seventh Parliament, Professor Michael Aaron Oquaye is lamenting over the culture of stealing at work places resulting in collapse of business ventures and hindering expansion.
“Our people are not mindful of the harm we are doing to all of us, by the act of stealing medicine from the hospitals, before you know all the medicine are stolen they open a small clinic home and pretend to be working”.
He further noted that the harm is being perpetuated in both the private and public sector, “people are unemployed because those who got the opportunity to work were dishonest they kill business and then turn around to complain about unemployment’.
In advance Countries they take stealing very serious, in America for instance go to work and take one sheet of paper you are sacked, they call it abuse but we in Ghana think it is a joke, he said.
The former Dome/Kwabenya legislator made this remarks, when the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Community Hospital Group, Mr. KwasiAcquah called on him to thank him for opening the first community hospital at New Ashongman Estate in 2009 with the facility seeing expansion recording four more new community hospitals.
RT Honorable Professor Michael Aaron Oquaye remarked that, he wishes to see a day when discipline will improve things for everyone.
“Today the Community Hospital has employed 600 Ghanaians, if it breaks down now the following morning they are gone then another and another, why wouldn’t we lack jobs?”
In addition, he revealed that, Ghanaians want to go to the advance countries for job, but forgetting that the well established companies started from somewhere.
“In Ghana it is said that, when you start a business you should be around to supervise it, you bring in people they will steal at the same time you need to bring in people to expand the business for it to grow”.
He indicated that, what had helped the UK with limited liability companiesis that those who set up business leave it for honest people to run and think of other businesses. Those who are not disciplined are sacked to make sure disciple becomes their hall mark”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com