Drivers of the National Identification Authority (NIA) whose services and vehicles were employed during the lockdown period of Coronavirus are yet to be paid.
Speaking to this paper, the aggrieved drivers enumerated that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) through the National Security approached the Authority requesting for some of their vehicles and drivers to help in the transportation of patients, distribution of food items, carrying frontline workers among others.
They said, after the lockdown period neither GHS nor National Security has made efforts to pay them for the services as agreed.
The drivers, said although they made frantic efforts to contact both institutions for the payment, they are always “tossed around” with no positive response in sight.
According to them, whenever the contact GHS for their money, they are told it was the National Security which is to settle that debt.
Again, when they moved to the National Security, they were again told to contact GHS for payment.
This back and forth, according to them has given cause to worry when it became obvious that both entities are not willing to pay for the services.
The drivers, bitter about the whole development have threatened to picket at the offices of GHS and the National Security even at the peril of their lives if that is what would make them pay.
