Member of Parliament(MP) for Tamale Central Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed has cautioned against taking any pay cut from his salary.
This comes after President Akufo-Addo cut the salary of his appointees by 30%, while the Council of State also cut their monthly allowance by 20%.
This has led to calls for Members of Parliament to also take a pay cut to save the country in these dire moments.
However, Murtala believes that the best the government is to reduce its elephant size appointees and also reduce wastage.
He alleged that there are several people occupying positions in government who do next to nothing but are paid huge sums of money at the end of the month.
Murtala was reported y mynewsgh saying, “Well I think that my very good friend Kojo Oppong Nkrumah should give us a break, nobody is taking a dime from my salary. What we are asking this government to do is to reduce the size of the government. How much will it contribute to salvaging the mess in which we are with the percentage cut by the Council of State and even Members of Parliament(MPs)
“The young men who are recruited at the flagstaff house, they are given laptops, they sit behind the laptops monitor social media see those who are criticizing this government genuinely and they go on the blistering attack on those people and those young men are paid 15,000 Ghana cedis. We have MCEs who were sacked perhaps for non-performance, they are now advisors to the Minister for Local Government and you have all manner of people.
What we are telling the government is to reduce the size of government, cut its expenditure on useless things in the country. If the government wants help it should demonstrate that it needs help. Even we as MPs and those in NPP are spending our salaries in our constituencies.
The entire 2021 we were given one-quarter of our MPs Common Fund. In fact all MMDCEs never had a quarter of what they had was arrears of 2020. So if I’m a Member of Parliament the money to execute certain basic projects in my constituency those monies are not coming. By the time are salaries are paid, you are so indebted because you would have spent the money to take care of certain important things in your constituency,” he said.
GhanaFeed.com