Pay staff salaries within ten days: AYWO to GHADC

TURA: The A’chik Youth Welfare Organization (AYWO) has served an ultimatum of ten days to GHADC authorities to release the salaries of its employees which have been pending for over eight months now.
In its letter to GHADC Chief Executive Member Denang T Sangma, the organisation lamented that it was shame that the Council had failed to pay the ‘rightful dues’ of the employees despite it being an institution that generates high revenue.
“If the revenue of the GHADC is properly utilized and financial proceeding streamlined, the revenue would be in surplus amount to pay the employees’ salaries. We are irked by the social, mental but more specifically economical sidelining of the employees. We mean business and request you to do whatever your office can do to serve justice,” AYWO said and warned that it would go to any lengths and be forced to take its own course of action in the coming days if their request was unheeded.
The AYWO was all praise for the employees and reminded that they had not ceased work for almost a year despite not being paid. And while it did not blame the present EC for the ‘whole mess’, it pointed out that it was now the one in authority and urged it to do the needful.
The organization suggested that if there was currently a shortage of funds in the treasury as claimed, the Council should revoke all financial engagements and halt infrastructural activities including renovation of MDC quarters and members’ hostel, minimise perks and fees enjoyed by MDCs, curtail office maintenance expenditure and also ensure that the Council funds are not misused to enable the payment of employees’ salaries.
Further, claiming to have learnt that the EC was negotiating with certain financial institutions to overdraft the needed amount for payment of 2-3 months’ salary, it also appealed to the said institutions to pay heed to the proposal in the interest of the employees.
“We appeal to the authorities to act before the expiry of the served ultimatum. Otherwise, we will be left with no option but take our own course of action,” the organisation warned.