CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE?

Location:        Dzodze

Date:               Tuesday, July 2, 2013

I opened the office very early today. Perhaps, the long weekend plus the holiday was making me feel bored about staying late in bed. I do my usual planning for the day and top on the list is the letter I urgently need to send to my sister in Winneba. I start thinking of ways to send it. If I send it through a vehicle, someone would have to go get it from the driver in Accra before it gets to her in the Central Region. Funny enough, Ghana Post never comes into mind. Like seriously.

After thinking through for a while, I realize that the only means to send this is through Ghana Post. So, I call up my sister and ask of her address details. Then I set off to the Post Office on a motorbike, “Okada”. Having arrived at the place at 8:15am, I knew I had some waiting to do since government offices do open at 8:30am.

Time check and it is past 8:30am. Still no sign of this post master. So I walk to the nearest house and I am told he has sent his child to school. At this moment, I begin to boil up. Why should someone who has been employed to serve the needs of the general public hold them up to ransom? Whiles waiting, I count not less than two (2) people who just come and leave upon realizing that he is not around. At that point, I begin to ask myself questions. Who is responsible for supervising this postman? If it were a private venture, would he dare report late to work?

Well, I waited till 9:20am and left since there was no sign of the post master. Leaving the premises, I even got angrier at the kind of structure which stood “waste”. I am using this word carefully. Here is a huge office which could possibly house a bank being used for a post office. In addition to it, there is an outer house in which the post man lives. I do not know if the post man is charged for staying in the apartment but I reckon it is part of Ghana Post’s structures. With this entire infrastructure lying “waste”, the post office NEVER opens on time. Is this not a huge loss to the state?