The acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), Margaret Ansei, has dismissed all district coordinators nationwide, a move that affects 218 staff members.

In three seperate internal communications memo issued by the acting CEO between August and December 2025 cited by Class News

The first memo, dated August 27, cautioned coordinators that their contracts were renewed yearly and that their performance was under review.

A follow-up notice on October 27 indicated that their contracts under the BIZBOX initiative had officially expired on August 31, 2025. It added that deliberations on whether to extend their engagement were ongoing and that the agency would communicate its final decision in due time.

However, a third directive on December 3 instructed regional heads of Business Advisory Centers and Business Resource Centers to ensure that all outgoing coordinators “stop reporting to the office immediately.” It also directed management to provide full support for newly appointed coordinators who had already been selected and placed.

Despite this, many affected officers some recruited in 2023 say they were never formally notified that their employment had been terminated.

One coordinator who requested anonymity told Citi News that the sudden removal came as a shock.

“Nothing we received from management indicated that our jobs had been terminated, so this has taken us completely by surprise,” the officer said.

According to the source, replacements were secretly interviewed and hired without informing the current coordinators.

“New people were interviewed and offered our positions while we were still working. It is as though we don’t matter as citizens who also deserve employment. Some of us are now returning to unemployment after years of searching,” the officer lamented.

The coordinator added that many of the affected staff have gone unpaid for November despite continuing to report to duty.

“Our November salaries haven’t been paid, and we have no idea when they will be. We kept working because we had not been told to stop,” the officer noted.