Communicators of both the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region are calling on their respective parties to institute welfare packages for them.
Contributing to discussion on News Digest on Dreamz FM through a phone, Upper East Regional Communications Director Peter Ayinbisa noted that parties’ communicators in the region are not taken care of.
He said despite the critical role they play for their parties, their needs have been left unattended to and most of them are struggling to make ends meet.
“It is not easy to travel with whatever means you have sometimes, you don’t even have any regular means to go and sit on radio. It’s not easy to get up and listen to 2 or radio stations to enable you make impact. So what is our welfare. I don’t know how he suffered before dying,” he stated.
Peter Ayinbisa said this while mourning the death of a serial communicator of the NDC in Bolgatanga.
He observed that the parties have failed to lend any helping hand to communicators who have been hit by misfortunes.
This, he said, is not the best and called on the parties to institute welfare packages for their communicators.
“Not him alone but majority of our people – NDC or NPP communicators – we are dying silently without anybody attending to us. It’s time for us to see what we can do to support each by way of welfare.
I have a communicator who had an accident, nothing has happened. We all look and just greet and go by. It is time to reflect and think about the welfare of the communicator”.
John Paul Danka, who was on the show as a guest, shared similar sentiments and called on the parties to immediately put in place welfare programs for them.
“Welfare is very key as we are alive. Teachers have accepted that they will go up and collect. We want it here”.
Another guest Johnson Ayine tasked the two regional communications heads to ensure their members are compensated adequately.
“Even when Randy became the Communications Director, he did his best to try and put up a welfare committee. I think the two communications directors Peter Ayinbisa and Abdallah, they should do something about it”.