It
comes with much surprise and bombshell, how our parliamentarians unanimously
and hastily approved to be paid such gigantic sums of money. The most horrible
part of the increase in emoluments is that of the executive arm of government.
The salaries of MPs jumped from GH¢3,500
to GH¢7,200 per month for each lawmaker .That of the president has been
increased to GH¢12,000, Ministers of State and their deputies are also to earn
between GH¢8,000 and GH¢9000 respectively, just like presidential staffers and
aides.
These
figures were agreed upon after a closed sitting of Parliament on Wednesday,
October 31, 2012, after the executive had also approved that of the MPs in a
game of “you scratch my back, I scratch your back……..One good turn deserves
another”.
Shockingly,
with the latest upward
adjustments, members of these two arms of government would all benefit from
arrears which would take retrospective effect from 2009.
My biggest worry is that, is Ghana that
rich to pay such amount of monies? Is Ghana not the same country that some
people can’t afford three-square meal a day? Is it not this same country that
is always securing loans from other countries?
GOD SHOULD SAVE US.
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