Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has suggested that Head of States in the country should retire on salary rather than paying them huge monies as ex-gratia after they exist office.
“The head of state should retire solely on his salary as such he has to be able to afford buying a house with the salary gained. If you can’t then you have a lot of issues to solve” he stressed.
The veteran journalist indicated that, “even Prime ministers in the United Kingdom return to their private mansions after their tenure of office, as such head of states in Ghana should focus on their salary than paying mind to state properties”.
Kwesi Pratt on Accra-based Kasapa FM maintained that former presidents cannot be treated special to the detriment of the ordinary citizen.
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