Port of Abidjan: Ouattara is dismissing 120 workers yesterday while having fun at the Stadium ...

Very tense atmosphere last Thursday, January 5, 2012 at the Autonomous Port of Abidjan. Indeed, this date was chosen by the Director General of the structure, appointed by Ouattara, to see a list of 120 persons to be dismissed. This is 75 seamen or boatmen, 27 liaison officers and 18 agents office. But against all expectations, management uses a quota FRCI (of the pro-Ouattara) weapons in hand.

A deployment that has been variously interpreted by the agents. They say they do not understand what particular safety device to display a list of licensed agents. According to them, this attitude proves that the dismissal of their comrades was made ​​on the false. Indeed, management justified the dismissal by the increase in payroll, which is 33%. This according to the Human Resources Department, must fall to 25%. For, according to him in a note that Mr. Fofana Meité, the director of the department sent Dec. 20, N / ref. 005/Drh/Smf/Dacrh/smac delegates, the economic heart of the Côte d'Ivoire has huge financial problems. This requires, resize the size of some jobs.

But, what the agents say they do not understand, when their boss dismisses these 120 agents, it has already recruited 25 senior executives for exorbitant salaries. Staff representatives met say that this argument by senior management incompetence rather a cache. "What we do not understand is that in crisis, the Port Authority has supported the salaries of officers in 1800. Even when it was embargoed, wages were paid. Today the port is no longer under embargo. And the staff is reduced. For, immediately upon taking office, he has returned 110 agents in fixed-term contracts (CDD). 75 other agents in CDI (permanent contract) then went unemployed. There were also officials seconded to the Port who have returned to their respective departments, not including the abandonment of post. While we do not understand that. The staff has been significantly reduced, "say officials. Which shows that when the CEO Sié Hien, fires, he recruited another 25 officers and also pays the trainees. "The port authority has not paid its interns. Something is wrong, "they say.

Anyway, yesterday, following the posting of this list, the Port had become almost a cemetery. The dismissal will not stop at these 120 agents. A list of 175 other agents is being established. They will have their letters of dismissal on February 6 this year. In any case, for the agents, these conditions do not allow them to work properly. For each day, the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. Who can stop Sié Hien, in its tracks?

Joseph Atoumgbré

Source: Le Temps