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A member of the Communication�s Team of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Godwin Akogan has urged Ghanaians to disassociate government from the stance of Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah (rtd), the National Security Advisor, on Labour Union�s penchant for industrial action saying he was not speaking on behalf of the ruling party. National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah during the commissioning of a nine-unit classroom block he built for O�Reilly Senior High School in Accra, said; �As I walk in the sun here from morning till evening sometime I only drink orange juice to build a school for the future of our children. Then some teachers say that they won't teach them because they are on strike!. It is very sad that we toil with the future of our children,� he bemoaned. ��every Tom, Dick and Harry gets up and is calling for a strike. If you don�t want the job, Ghana is not a police state, take your passport and get out of this country��.If you can�t sacrifice like what some of us have don�t then get out. If the kitchen is too hot for you, get out�, he opined. Addressing the issue on HotFM, the NDC communicator averred that it will be wrong for Ghanaians to associate the speech read by Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah to the government because he spoke on his own volition. He believed some people are desperately trying to link the government with the comments passed by the former army commander. �The event was not national and the fact that he used the word �we� in his speech does not mean he was referring to the NDC government but rather his speech emphasized on Ghanaians who think like him on the position of the striking workers in the country; nobody in NDC wrote his speech for him,� he explained. He urged the public to consider the good aspect of his (Nunoo Mensah�s) speech in relation to the fact that strikes are not the way to resolving grievances regarding remuneration, since such actions by organized labour, affects the development of the entire country.