By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
Management of the nation’s broadcaster, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), has appealed to the government to seriously consider assisting GBC to resolve its looming Human Resource crisis.
The appeal was made at a GBC stakeholder meeting held on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.
Presenting the management report of the Corporation, the Director-General (DG) of GBC, Prof. Amin Alhassan, pointed out that attrition in staff numbers has been identified as a major risk area for the Corporation.
According to him, in the last ten years, a total of 605 staff have formally retired from GBC. “Of this number, we have had over this same period only been approved to employ 58. In effect, in the last ten years, we have lost 547 staff positions,” he added.
“The irony of this staff attrition is that in the last ten years, GBC has expanded in terms of a number of TV channels and regional and district radio stations. In addition, the requirements of new media have also imposed additional workload on staff.
It is on this basis that I want to appeal to the Government to seriously consider assisting GBC to resolve this looming human resource crisis,” Prof. Alhassan reiterated.
