Credible information reaching the New Statesman indicates that members of the National Media Commission have been working on empty stomach for the past five months, following the failure of the Mills-Mahama led National Democratic Congress government to release funds to pay the commission�s subvention.
The situation is said to be making the work of the commission very difficult.
Payment of subvention to the NMC, according to insiders, was always prompt during the eight-year rule of the erstwhile New Patriotic Party administration under President Kufuor.
The failure to pay subventions promptly to state-sponsored organisations has been a common feature of governance in the country since the Mills-Mahama administration took office on January 7, 2009.
In view of the fact that government revenue collection agencies claim they have been exceeding their targets, many analysts find it difficult to understand why institutions such as the Ghana Education Trust Fund, the Judicial Service and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies should be denied the funds they so much need to ensure their efficient running.
Contractors working on various government projects are also yet to be paid for contracts executed over a year ago, in spite of their spirited agitations for the payment of the monies due them.
Staff of the Judicial Service recently wore red bands to work and hoisted red flats to give vent to their frustrations following the failure of government to release funds for the running of the organisation.
Francis Brakwah, Chairman of the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana, who led the agitations, regretted the negative impact the undue delay in the release of funds was having on the running of the Judicial Service.
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