The Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG) has urged President Mahama to abolish agencies like the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) and the Commission for Technical and Vocational Educational Training (COTVET), arguing that they duplicate the roles of the Civil Service.

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CLOGSAG stated that the Civil Service already handles technical and vocational training as part of its duties, but the creation of these agencies has weakened some ministries. Isaac Bampoe Addo, Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, shared this view in an exclusive interview with labour affairs correspondent Daniel Opoku, following President Mahama’s recent announcement about merging some ministries.

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“The President should also look at services that are being hived off from the Civil Service, I think it is wrong is a duplication, is just creating roles so those two must be halted,” he said.

According to Mr Bampoe Addo the agencies are a waste of government resources.“…TVET and COTVET they are really unnecessary, just to create another bureaucracy…these are institutions that did not exist

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they have their mandate but the whole thing was done haphazardly no recourse to the councils involved,” Mr Bampoe Addo added. In a related development, Mr Bampoe Addo has appealed to President Mahama to re-introduce the general orders policy.“Let’s bring back the general orders, we used to have a system we call general orders. It will give the processes on any transaction and in the Service, there is nothing like discretion.

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“But these general orders have been thrown out and is like people are doing things with their discretion, let’s bring back the general orders” he noted.

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