“If I go home without the money, someone will shoot me!”- Member of picketing Food Suppliers

One of the Food Suppliers Association members made a heartbreaking plea, detailing the terrible repercussions she may face if she went home without getting the money the National Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) owed her.

The woman, who is said to be in her mid-40s, begged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to promptly address the NAFCO, who will plan to pay them, the food providers, in an interview with Accra-based UTV.
“Mama, all I’ll say is that Nana has to concentrate on us. He ought to pay the buffer firm so that they may pay us our fair portion and let us go home. It’s not good where we’re sleeping,” she complained.

The woman explained that she might lose her life since the person she owed money to had threatened to kill her if they ever met. Her misery was clear in her voice.

“For me, if I should go home, someone will kill me, in fact, he will shoot me to death. The way the man has threatened me. I have worked with him for a long time and because of me, he had to come to Koforidua. Even on the phone, I don’t get my peace of mind let alone see my face,” the woman emphasised.

The food provider revealed that the situation was affecting her physically and mentally, and that she now travels with medicine because of the pressure and stress she has been under.

“I always travel with medicine packs since that’s all I take. As she sighed in despair, she remarked, “Nana should pay more attention to us because there is strain on us.

In recent days, the Free Senior High School program’s Food Suppliers Association members have been picketing outside the National Buffer Stock Company’s office in protest of the business’s failure to pay them two years’ worth of arrears.

To voice their complaints to the NAFCO administration, several members resorted to sleeping at work.

Source: Ghanatodayonline.com