Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Prakash Ra­mad­har has raised con­cerns about the state of the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OS­HA), ques­tion­ing whether the in­sti­tu­tion has been com­pro­mised and call­ing for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Speak­ing at a news con­fer­ence at the par­ty’s head of­fice yes­ter­day, Ra­mad­har said he has re­ceived in­for­ma­tion sug­gest­ing that a se­nior OS­HA of­fi­cer has al­leged­ly been sup­press­ing the work of in­ves­ti­ga­tors. He ar­gued that such in­ter­fer­ence rais­es ques­tions about ac­count­abil­i­ty and trans­paren­cy with­in the au­thor­i­ty.

“If I am to be­lieve what I have read from those doc­u­ments, OS­HA is in a ter­ri­ble mess. The sys­tem has been cor­rupt­ed by per­sons, for what­ev­er rea­sons, po­lit­i­cal or oth­er­wise, who have failed in their du­ty to every work­ing man and woman in this na­tion, and to­day I am call­ing for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to OS­HA,” said Ra­mad­har.