In the Musikot municipality of Gulmi, the municipal employees have protested because the people's representative behaved indecently.
When there was a dispute about the payment, the four ward presidents arrested the chief administrative officer, Chetanath Giri, and the staff protested.
Last Friday, when the Municipal Assembly was going on, Ward no. Ward president of 2 Ravindra KC had a dispute saying that the money spent on road construction on Dasain was not paid. After the dispute, Ward No. including KC. It is alleged by the staff that Ward President Anand Shrestha of 1, Ramesh Vick of 8 and Bhuma Gurung of 9 treated the Chief Administrative Officer Giri indecently. According to Chief Administrative Officer Giri, ward no. KC, the ward president of 2, demanded the payment of the amount because he had used a dozer to destroy the road without any decision from the city. During Dasain, he asked for payment saying that he had made the dozer work for 226 hours, but due to lack of resources at that time, the payment could not be made. Later, it was decided to give the payment according to the technical evaluation from the discussion of the executive, but there was a dispute when it was lower than the evaluation.
'After the technical evaluation did not show as much as he said, we were in the process of paying the amount according to the technical evaluation,' he said.
All the employees of the city have gone on strike since Friday in protest against the activities of the ward presidents. They say that they will not return to work until they apologize. "They had to realize their mistake and ask for a public apology, so that these kinds of actions would not be repeated and there should be an environment to work in a fearless environment," said Chief Administrative Officer Giri.
KC, the ward president, said that there was a dispute about the road repair he had decided to pay for underestimating it. "The chief administrative officer wrote in the minute the matter that was not raised in the city executive meeting", he said. He alleged that he had repeatedly requested the mayor to repair the roads damaged by the rains of June last year, but he ignored them and later he did not even pay the amount for the repairs. "When the roads were not ready even in Dussein, I myself paid 2 lakh rupees in advance to the dozer and repaired 9 ward roads in Kartik, but I was told to pay only 4 lakh 94 thousand for the cost of 6 lakh 78 thousand," he said. He also argued that there is no point in penning down the employees who participated in the village assembly meeting after the dispute. "After the dispute, when the employees participated in the village meeting, they did not protest, what is the protest now?" he said.
Journalist Surya Sunar was treated indecently by Ward President KC while filming the video of the incident. Journalist Sunar said that the camera of journalist Sunar was seized and the video of the incident was also deleted.
