|
Headlines
|
|
Written by Our Senior Staff
|
|
Monday, 07 January 2013 00:55 |
Directors and assistant directors from various departments at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications have sharply reacted to the Friday January 3rd edition of the New Nation Newspaper captioned: “Minister Norkeh Under Fire, Postal Employees Want Him Out”.
A position statement which carried the signatures of 31 employees including, Directors, Assistant Directors, Coordinators, among others, said the publication was false and malicious.
The signatories noted that at no time “did we inform any reporter and \ or reporters of any media outlet, least to talk about the Management the New Nation Newspaper to published what was reported in this little read Newspaper as claimed”.
The employees have used the medium to call on the public not to give credence to the publication which they termed “malicious”, claiming that “it lacks credibility and misrepresents the facts”.
“ The Directors and Assistant Directors again like to emphasize that the writer of such propaganda did not talk to any staff of the Ministry, buy rather wrote an imaginary story sponsored by Minister Norkeh’s detractors in the face of the rumor of reshuffle in government,” the statement issued last Friday noted.
The signatories expressed profound dismay and shock over the Volume 006, Number 01 edition of the New Nation implicating them into a call for the removal of Minister Norkehfrom office on allegations of corruption; and that the Minister has refused to give Directors and Assistant Directors gasoline coupons and scratch cards.
“By virtue of the foregoing, therefore, we, the undersigned Directors and Assistant Directors of the Ministry of Posts and telecommunications do hereby affix our signatures authenticating our prompt reaction to this reckless story,” the statement concluded.
|
