Information available to the New Statesman indicates that morale is down among staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially among career diplomats working at Ghana’s foreign missions, due to alleged intimations they are facing from the sector minister, Hannah Tetteh.

At a time that the sick are dying because Government is refusing to negotiate meaningful conditions of service for medical doctors, the state-owned oil company, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, has, out of its kindness, decided to sign big, fat cheques to six employees, who parted ways with the Corporation 14 or 15 years ago.