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Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has urged the striking public servants to comply with the court's order to resume work. Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu called on the workers to go to the negotiation table with the government to resolve the imbroglio over the management of their pension funds. The Industrial and Labour Division of the Accra High Court granted an interlocutory injunction restraining nine unions from continuing with their indefinite strike over issues relating to their tier-two pension funds. Justice Saed Kwaku Gyan, a Court of Appeal judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court judge,directed the leadership of the unions and members to immediately end their strike action and resume to work. Speaking in an interview with host Kwami Sefa Kayi, the Minority Leader advised the workers saying once the court has ruled that workers should quit the strike action, it binds on them to oblige with the ruling. He however condemned the government's treatment of the workers, claiming that the ruling Mahama NDC takes delight in peddling lies around. He said the Mahama government has not been truthful to the workers and failed to account for their monies. To him, all that the striking workers are demanding is how the government is managing their funds and a genuine revelation of the amount of contributions they have made. Also, they seek to have their pensions administered by a Trustee they can relate with, he added. Although the Minister for Communications Dr. Oman Boamah on Monday clarified some "distortions" regarding the second tier pension funds, the Minority Leader believes they have not been entirely transparent with the workers. �Good democratic governance is about transparency and accountability," he said. He therefore hoped for an end to the ongoing strike, stressing that "it will have to end with the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth.�