A worker at the ongoing project to expand the Tema port has been injured and rushed to hospital after he was hit by a stray bullet following protests by workers on Thursday, June 22.
One of the workers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “They called in the police and they have arrested some of the workers. The rubber bullet has injured someone’s eye. He has been rushed to the hospital. So what is happening in this country…?”
The workers staged a protest over what they said was unfair treatment for many months.
“How can you pay your workers less than GHC250.00 and expect them to survive and work well? The Chinese workers eat good meals whilst we eat bread…” an agitated worker told Adom FM’s Isabella Gidiglo Ave in an interview.
The police were invited to move the workers from the site since they had refused to work, but they pelted the law officers with stones, compelling them to fire rubber bullets to contain the situation.
It took the intervention of the Deputy Minister of Roads and Transport, Daniel Titus-Glover, to calm the tension.
Source:Ghana/AccraFM.com
