Environmental health officers to stage demo over financial clearance, postings

This follows the expiration of a one-month ultimatum they gave the government to intervene in the matter.

Despite completing their one-year mandatory national service, these officers claim they have encountered a deadlock in their attempts to secure postings from the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources.

The General Secretary of the Association, Fred Awine, disclosed in an interview with Citi News that after the protest, they would give the government another 30-day ultimatum to clear them, failing which they would continue to highlight their problems.

“To be frank, all our efforts have not yielded any results, and from today, we have set the date for Wednesday, 17th, to go on a protest in Tamale to submit our petition to the regional coordinating Council, the regional Minister of the Northern region.

We have copied the local government ministry, we have copied the Minister of Water and Sanitation, we have copied the Finance Ministry that we are coming for them.

Note that we are not only environmental health officers; we also have Operational Health Safety and Physiotherapists among us, and all are still at home.

Meanwhile, we have preventive medicine officers who have been at home since 2021, and we have not been cleared and posted