The Ghana Railway Workers Union has postponed plans to terminate the two passenger train services on the rail lines from Accra to Tema and Kojokrom via Sekondi to Takoradi.
The decision was made after an effective meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Railways Development, the Ghana Railway Company Limited, and the Workers Union.
The Workers Union had earlier threatened to stop operating the two passenger train routes.
The threat was to voice its opposition to Act 779, the Railway Act, which among other things transfers assets previously managed by the Ghana Railway Company Limited to the Ghana Railway Development Authority.
In a statement, it was claimed that the Ghana Railway Development Authority had abused the Act to continue doing things that were harmful to the life of the Ghana Railway Company Limited and that numerous petitions for the Act to be reviewed had failed to produce the intended results.
It was decided at a recent meeting of stakeholders in the railway industry that moving ahead, the Railway Authority should obtain permission from the Sector Ministry before beginning any action involving assets under the management of the Ghana Railway Company Limited.
The meeting also decided that no agency under the Ministry should ever sell scrap metal without the Ministry’s official permission.
The Railway Workers Union’s General Secretary, Godwill Ntarmah, issued a statement in which he said that the union found the agreements made at the meeting to be satisfactory and that, as a result, it had withdrawn its earlier stated intention to stop operating the two passenger trains as of August 22, 2022.
