By Binta Jaiteh
The Director General of the Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS) Abdoulie Sey has disclosed that staff quit at GRTS due to remuneration reason.
DG informed the parliamentary Public Enterprises Committee (PEC) during the consideration stage of their 2021 management letter and audited financial statements.
The Director General of GRTS indicates that this is very important and the greater reason why people leave is due to remuneration.
“We have tried twice to increase the remuneration of our staff but we failed, if this trend continues we fear losing more staff,” he stressed
The chairperson of the committee Lamin J Sanneh asked the DG as to who determines the salary structure at GRTS and whether that is the major reason of staff quitting.
He told the DG that if we have private Media that are paying better, obviously people will go for greener pasture. “This is very important and generally as a country we need serious salary structure that will play a key role in improving both civil and public service,” he remarked.
PEC chairperson further stated that the cost of living and source should match. He said the management should include this in their mitigation strategy because the trend in which GRTS is losing highly competent staff is worrying as a state broadcaster.
Sanneh stressed that this can negatively affect GRTS work and it needed to be addressed immediately. The committee assured the institution that Parliament was willing to assist in terms of financial issues.
Chairperson Board of Directors at GRTS, Nenneh Macdouall Gaye noted that the salary issue had been taken up with the new SOE commission and they were working on a salary structure for all state owned enterprises.
“We hope that GRTS will benefit greatly on that because they have seen the disparity, taking into consideration the kind of work GRTS does. That kind of encouragement in terms of better remuneration would go a long way,” Nennehadded.
