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As Vodafone is trying to woo Ghanaians to hook unto its network by undertaking heavy investment in promotional activities, its management is boiling with rage as a result of the activities of one of the expatriate staff. Presently, there is rumpus between the Ghanaians within the management on one side against the British expatriates and their Kenyan counterpart on the other side.The Kenyan, Amon Jere, who is in charge of sales management, is alleged to have invited a company from his home country to milk Vodafone Ghana dry. Jere, who once charged on the Ghanaian workers of the company that they are lazy and must therefore be sacked, is allegedly using Swivel Marketing Company from Kenya for purposes that are still not clear to some top management members of Vodafone Ghana.Swivel Company, according to some top level management personnel of Vodafone entered Ghana at the instance of Jere, who is in charge of the sales management team of the company. Through his instrumentally, Swivel Company was engaged by Vodafone to provide services in connection with promotional activities of the company.But today, it has turned out that Swivel Company has now assumed the status of a dealership company, a situation some top management members are crying foul over.The Kenyan Company, according to The Enquirer sources, has swerved all the laid down procedures that pave way for a company to enter into dealership contract with Vodafone.�A company that is supposed to help us in promotion now lifts, and sells Vodafone products without any bank guarantee,� the sources said. The Enquirer newspaper gathered that the Swivel Company has for sometime now been accounting for stocks that it has sold for Vodafone, Ghana. The sources said that Ghanaian dealers with the necessary guarantee cover are not allowed to exceed their levels in anyway. According to the sources, the sales performance under Jere has been a worry to Vodafone and that has generated the firing of queries from Newbury in England, where Vodafone head office is based. The sources said that current dealership contracts are given out without due diligence. �Lebanese, Zambian and Kenyan dealers are now in control as against Ghanaians, who should have no foreign competitors,� the sources said. The sources said that it is time to pull the breaks on the wheels of Jere because his activities are creating tension among management. The sources said that the British in the company are silent over what is going on because they brought him on. �The manner he denigrates Ghanaians in the company is another thing that should be checked,� the sources said. Jere, recently hit the news when he described Ghanaian workers as bunch of lazy workers who must be fired. That alleged statement nearly led to confusion as Union members did not take kindly to it. However, tempers came down when some Ghanaians within the management took up the matter. The workers, during that time, called on management to investigate the matter but nothing has come out of it till today.