WHO SAID 2015 IS NOT THE 6TH YEAR OF JOHN MAHAMA? JOHN MAHAMA INCREASED HIS SALARY BY 100% IN 2013 AND BACKDATED IT TO 2009. NOW READ.... BLAME PARLIAMENT, NOT MAHAMA FOR HIS SALARY INCREASE- FRED AGBENYO November 3, 2012 Blame Parliament, not Mahama for his salary increase- Fred Agbenyo A youth activists of the governing National Democratic Congress Fred Agbenyo, says the president is not to blame for the increase in salary of the president. Fred Agbenyo insists the president did not in the ease of his bedroom decree a new pay increase of 12,000 cedis per month to himself and another 10,500 per month to his vice. He was talking on Peace FM’s morning show programme, Kokrokoo on Friday. Critics have quizzed the basis of the increases, given the prevailing economic situation in the country. A member of the Communications team of the New Patriotic Party John Boadu who was also on the show did not fail to remind the NDC the morality campaign they paid against the NPP when the same issue cropped up in 2008-09. Boadu recounted how the NDC through its associated group, the CJA, embarked on series of demonstrations to protest the ex- gratia of the then Executive and Legislators. He said the salary increase of the president and his vice as well as their ministers which will be back dated to 2009, will obviously affect their ex-gratia in 2013. He questioned why a government claiming to have single digit inflation, which meant prices of merchandises were relatively constant, would pay its officers triple digit pay rise. In any case, has the load shedding exercise been solved? Has poverty been eradicated in the country? Has all the schools under trees been eliminated, he questioned, adding what is the reason for the increases? But in a response Fred Agbenyo said the president was not answerable for the increases. Somewhat, he claimed, it was the people’s representatives in Parliament who offered to pay that amount of money to the president. He stated it was biased for anybody to propose that the president offered to pay himself that amount of money. Lawyer Egbert Faibille who was also on the show said the president cannot escape blame in the pay increases. Mentioning portions of the Constitution, he said it was the president who constituted the Prof Ewurama Addy committee to define the salaries of the executive and legislators. So if there is any public criticism, he should equally be held accountable.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:49:01 +0000
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