It Makes No Sense For Politicians To Earn Ten Times Salaries Of Civil Servants – Oliver Baker-Vormawor

Convenor for the #FixTheCountry campaign, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has bemoaned the drastic imbalance in the pay structure of public sector workers in the country.

According to him it is unfair for article 71 office holders to earn huge salaries to the detriment of other civil servants.

“It just feels inherently unfair for all of us to contribute certain things to making the democracy work and then for some to go home on so little,” he said on Joynews.

“In the UK for instance an MP earns about £6,000 per month [while] the nurse earns about £4,500. Whereas in our case an MP earns about $4,500 and a nurse about $450. So about 10 times more,” he added.

He also touched on the disparity in retirement conditions for the two classes of workers.

“This has been a bigger question not only in terms of what people receive monthly but also when they have served their duty to the state, what happens to them and this brings to the perspective the whole article 71 structure that a lot of people have talked about,” he said.

Source: GhanaFeed.com