The Attorney-General (A-G) and the Ministry of Finance have been sued by forty (40) Members of Parliament under the erstwhile Kufour administration over pensions owed them. The forty are demanding at least GHc 233, 495 each.
The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and private legal practitioner, Captain Effah Dartey are part of the former MPs.
The initial lump sum was said to be GHc 13,735 per plaintiff, but interest accrued on the amount from January 2009 to February 2016 raises the amount to GHc 233,495.
The plaintiffs among other reliefs are praying the court to refund their legal bills. Negotiations between the MPs and government have been held since 2011 but they say their demands have still not been met.
In their writ, the 40 former MPs said, in a letter dated June 25, 2015, the Attorney General directed the Ministry of Finance to make the payments, but the Minister of Finance at the time refused, neglected or failed to make the payments as directed. Find below the list of former MPs
1. David Apasera
2. Dr. Charles Brempong-Yeboah
3. Francis Aggrey Agbotese
4. Nii Adu Daku Mante
5. Kwame Adusa Okerchiri
6. Godfred Otchere
7. Moses Dani Baah
8. K. Brandford Adu
9. Victor Okuley Nortey
10. Yaw Barimah
11. Kwadwo Darko Adjei
12. Samuel Gyamfi Adu
13. Joseph Tsatsu Agbenu
14. Eugene Atta Agyapong
15. Abraham Osei Aidoo
16. Dr. Kwame Ampofo
17.Dr. Matthew Kwaku Antwi
18. Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku
19. Yaw Mensah Asiedu
20. Angela Baiden-Amissah
21. Kwamena Bartels
22. Freddie W.A. Blay
23. Sampson Boafo
24. Chrisitne Churcher
25.Kenneth Dzirasah
26. Isaac E. Edumadze
27. Nkrabea Effah Dartey
28. Kwame Owusu Frimpong
29. Kitson Akomeng Kissi
30.Joseph Henry Mensah
31 Mrs Anna Nyamakye
32. Albert Kwaku Obbin
33.Yaw Osafo-Maafo
34.Francis Mensah Osafo
35. Akwasi Adjei Osei
36. K. Owusu Adjapong
37. K. Opoku Adusei
38. Quarm Sam
39.Alex Sofo Seidu
40.Alhassa Malik Yakubu –
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