Ghana Metro Mass Collapsing ;The Company Cannot Even Pay Monthly Salaries To Workers Amidst Tension & Confusion
Trouble is seriously brewing between the aggrieved workers and management of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Company headed by Mr. Albert Adu Boahen Adu, following the inability of the state-owned transport providing company to pay salaries to the workers on the monthly basis.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Trouble is seriously brewing between the aggrieved workers and management of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Company headed by Mr. Albert Adu Boahen Adu, following the inability of the state-owned transport providing company to pay salaries to the workers on the monthly basis.
Although the company has sacked about 200 workers to prevent the company from collapsing, information is available to Soireenews. com indicates that the company is not profitable and is now facing operational challenges–forcing the state to withdraw its financial support because it loses interest in the business of the company.
The information available to Soireenews.com indicates that the dying company currently pays its workers separately at the time that the money is available.
The worry situation has made hundreds of workers complain of dying of hunger since the management was not been able to pay their salaries on the monthly basis.
The very painful situation was that should in case any worker of the company complained about the delay in the paying of his monthly salary, the management will be upset and queried that worker for doing so.
The sources close to the company cited an example of the current suspension meted out to a worker who has granted an interview with some journalists and expressed his anger at the delay in the payment of his monthly salary.
According to the sources close to the workers, the company is on verge of collapsing due to the massive revenue leakages, breaking down of a huge number of the buses, lack of effective coordination among the working staff, cronyism, nepotism, mismanagement, and lack of spare parts to repair broken-down buses.
And one major contributing factor to the collapse of the company has compounded with the decision by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to crowd the company workforce with the NPP foot soldiers.
This, according to the sources, has created financial leakages at the MMT company in all the operation regional offices including the headquarters at Kaneshie in Accra.
Soireenews.com was reliably informed that the financial support intervention from the central government has also stopped.
The government, the sources indicated has withdrawn its financial support because the company is indebted to the state, the current situation which has prevented the MMT from effectively competing with private transport companies.
This online news portal gathered that the company has failed to meet its set revenue target of GH¢154million from its operations last year.
And that its operational performance in this year under review would be worst because 89 percent of buses have broken down without spare parts to repair them, and the buses were packed in the various workshops in its depots across the country.
Our investigations have discovered that the management has ordered the forty-five (45) new buses which are currently under the clearing processes at the Tema Harbour, but it cannot improve the operational challenges of the company.
For instance, soireenews.com discovered that the Kumasi depot of the company which used to have a total of one hundred of seventy-five (175) buses in operation in 2016, now operates 50 buses, preventing the company to make a profit.
However, a couple of weeks ago, Soireenews.com understands that the entire management of the MMT across the country has complained about the lack of spare parts to repair the broken buses and the situation has made the decline of the MMT services.
Some of the workers who spoke to this reporter on the condition of anonymity have blasted the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the ‘collapse’ of the Metro Mass Transit system.
They noted that some depots of the company in the various regions which used to operate more than 20 buses now operate either two or three buses.
The government in an attempt to revamp the MMT recently imported some buses for onward distribution to the various regions.
Nevertheless, the workers claimed there is a deficit because hundreds of the old buses have broken down.
Management of the MMT across the country has complained about the lack of spare parts to repair the buses.
The workers pointed out that the Metro Mass transport operations system in all the depots in the regions is in a difficult situation and that the company's transport operational services to some of the towns within many districts have halted as most of its buses have been grounded because of lack of spare parts.
They observed that the situation had adversely affected commuters in the country
The workers tasked the government to overhaul the MMT to serve the purpose of its establishment.
When contacted by the Communications Manager of the company, Mr. George Asante Krobia to get the side of the company, he stated that "none of your allegations are true."
He asked, "Which staff hasn’t been paid and who said we can’t repair the buses, please let’s be circumspect in our reportage."
As a pro-poor policy, the erstwhile Kufuor-led NPP administration introduced the system to provide affordable and reliable transportation services to all.
