The Bono Regional Chairman of the decision New Patriotic Party, Kwame Baffoe (Abronye DC), has demanded that previous President John Dramani Mahama took ex-gratia of GH¢14 million of every 2013 and GH¢15 million out of 2017.
In an official statement dated September 6, 2022, Abronye DC claimed that the previous president took the GH¢14 million ex-gratia in his Agricultural Development Bank Account.
He added the GH¢15 million ex-gratia for 2017 is an amount of all advantages Mahama appreciates as an ex-leader of Ghana and it incorporates his compensations, convenience stipends, travel remittances and pay rates of his staff.
“Allow me to emphasize my place that Mr. John Mahama to be sure gotten GH¢ 14m as ex gratia in 2013 which was credited into his Agricultural Development Bank Account. To add to that, Mr. John Mahama is the main President in the Fourth Republic who has gotten the fattest ex gratia and truly, he keeps on getting an uncommon finish of administration bundle which no previous leader of this nation has at any point appreciated.
“Mr. Mahama resigned on a compensation of GH¢22,809,00 up from the non-available compensation of GH¢15,972,00 recently supported for presidents. Be that as it may, he currently gets GH¢ 35,000 month to month because of the new expansion in payments as suggested by the Presidential Emoluments Committee on the states of administration of Article 71 office holders’ report.
“This really intends that, since previous President Mahama was removed from office, he has gotten a non-available compensation of GH¢ 1,934, 832. 00. Mr. Mahama additionally gets GH¢ 9,123.00 month to month as lease. This truly intends that starting around 2017, when Ghanaians casted a ballot against John Mahama, he has gotten a convenience stipend totalling GH¢ 629,487.00,” portions of the delivery read.
Abronye added that the previous president’s retirement bundle likewise included installments to his staff Joyce Bawa Mogtari and Felix Ofosu Kwakye who get GH¢ 9,000 consistently.
He further expressed that a proclamation delivered by the workplace of the previous president didn’t invalidate his claim since it didn’t show how much cash the previous president got as ex-gratia.
On Monday, September 9, the workplace of the previous president dismissed the claims by the Bono Regional NPP Chairman that the ex-president took the biggest ex-gratia of GH¢14 million.
The workplace portrayed Abronye DC’s remarks as “unintelligent tirades” in light of the ex-president’s commitment that the following National Democratic Party government will survey the 1992 Constitution, especially the remittances of Article 71 office holders.
In a proclamation gave by the unique guide to Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, Mahama’s office encouraged people in general to overlook the charges of Kwame Baffoe.
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