Almost three years ago the government called for the formation of People’s Defence Committees in various organisations principally to protect the interest of technicians, farmers, factory hands and clerks; protect public properties and increase production.

The response was dynamic. Meetings were held, the committees were born, and elected executives took their offices with glowing speeches pledging loyalty and promising “for all times to protect the interest of the working population”.

Today workers in every organisation need no soothsayer to brief them on whether the WDC in their organisations have lived up to their words and expectations or have let them down.

The answer is not far-fetched. Some have become tin gods, they must be shown the exit. We have had the opportunity to draw the attention of the public to the change in the life-style of some of the WDC’s executives. We have exposed the collusions between corrupt management and some of the executives who want to perpetuate the misrule and corruption in their various organisations.

No doubt we hope the Secretary for NDC is keeping the records on those patriotic management personnel and workers who had suffered intimidations, transfers and even dismissals from their own workers representatives because they dared to criticise their life-styles and abuse of power. One of the puzzles for most workers is why some members of the NDC Secretariat at times intervene to superimpose some executives found to be corrupt by patriotic workers.

While we will leave the details and names of those organisations and their executives involved, suffice it to say that some workers executives have betrayed us and abused the confidence that has been reposed in them to salvage the shattered economy of this nation and improve the standard of living.

While credit cannot be denied other workers who have withstood temptations and lived up to their calls, we do not hesitate to urge the government to take a second look at those who claim to represent workers.

It should not be forgotten that it debases the morale of patriotic workers to see their representatives driving home in staff cars while they are told by these very people that they should find their own ways home because they could not get petrol for the corporation buses to convey them.

We will, however, humbly suggest that our surveys on the whole revealed that the majority of the WDC executives in a number of organisations have acquired bourgeois life-styles. In their expected roles as watchdogs of our interests and public properties they have caused the nation to lose millions; they have frustrated dedicated management; they have played into the hands of the enemies of the revolution and opened the way to pessimists to rejoice.

The government must bring all to book.