Ace Ghanaian media personality, Gilbert Abeiku Santana has opposed the government’s intention to pay the First Lady of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo Addo, and the Second Lady, Samira Bawumia.
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This comes after it was made known that the Parliament has approved the allowances for the wives of the President and that of the vice.
This payment which has come into effect will be backdated from 2017 when the NPP government came to power to 2021 and paid to them in bulk.
The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said that all surviving spouses of Head of States, both former and current are to receive salaries.
“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 [in 2019],” he added.
In reaction to that, Abeiku Santana has urged Ghanaians to oppose the decision of the government to pay the spouses of the President and that of the Vice President.
In a post he made on his Instagram page, he wrote; “Listen to advice and accept instruction, so that you may gain wisdom for the future.“
“Even countries that can afford it won’t do that. Say no to the Presidential Spouses Salaries”, he added.
See the post below:
