President has reassigned Samuel Adom Botchway, the newly appointed Registrar of the Births & Deaths Registry, following the announcement of a nationwide strike by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG).
CLOGSAG announced that the strike would commence on Thursday, February 20, 2025, in response to Botchway's appointment.
The association asserts that Botchway is a politically exposed person and, therefore, unfit for the position.
In a statement dated February 13, 2025, Executive Secretary Isaac Bampoe Addo revealed that the decision to strike was made during a meeting of CLOGSAG's National Executive Council (NEC) on February 11, 2025. "The National Executive Council (NEC) decided that should Mr.