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New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako, has thrown his weight behind formalization of the payment of allowances cum salaries to President and Vice President s spouses.
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, set up a Committee to consider formalizing the payment of emoluments for Article 71 office holders.
The Committee named Prof. Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, submitting their recommendations to the President, suggested that a salary equivalent to a Cabinet Minister who is a Member of Parliament (MP) should be paid to the First Lady while her husband is in office and a payment of a salary equivalent to 80% of that of a Minister of State who is a Member of Parliament (MP) if the spouse served one full term as President or 100% of salary of a Minister of State who is a Member of Parliament (MP) if the spouse served two or more full terms as President.
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Governance Lecturer of the Central University, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah has condemned the government’s decision to pay wives of the President and Vice President.
Parliament has officially approved that the spouses of the President and Vice President will from now receive salaries.
The First and Second Ladies salaries are considered as part of the privileges of the President and Vice President.
“The President does approve salaries and benefits for the Executive. Under Article 71, the First Lady and Second Lady are not office holders so no one can determine their benefits under that article.
“However, a committee only recommended that an arrangement for the spouses be made formal and that received approval from Parliament.
Tarkwa-Nsuaem Member of Parliament (MP), George Mireku Duker has vented his spleen over opposition against Parliamentary approval of the payment of salaries to First and Second Ladies.
Parliament has officially approved that President and Vice President’s wives will now receive salaries.
This was confirmed by the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.
“The truth of the matter is that all surviving spouses of Heads of State, current and former, have always received salaries. Lordina Mahama, Naadu Mills, Matilda Amissah-Arthur, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, Faustina Acheampong, Fulera Liman etc have all been receiving salaries since President Kufuor s time.
“What has happened now is that the arrangement has been made formal but that was done legally based on the recommendation by the Emoluments Committee,” the Minister stated.