The ex-gratia is a lump sum paid to all officials who fall under the 71 office holders Starr News can confirm that former appointees under the erstwhile John Mahama-led administration have started receiving their end of service benefit popularly known as ex-gratia. The former appointees especially ministers, their deputies and former Members of Parliament are … Read more
Parliamentarians should not receive ex-gratia more than once, an elder statesman Captain Joel Sowu (rtd) has suggested. Legislators at the end of their four-year terms are given ex-gratia even if they retain their seats for another term in the legislature. But Captain Sowu finds the practice not right, arguing that payments should only be made … Read more
I have been reading and listening with an irreversible incredulity to the former President Mahama’s weird and unceremonious decision to hold on to the allocated accommodation for sitting vice presidents. Of course, former President Mahama is entitled to some handsome privileges by virtue of being the ex-president of our beloved Ghana. But then again, the … Read more
..though ‘councils of state’ just like any other state institution, is holy enshrined in the constitution. But what vital significance or impact does it have as far as governance is concerned?.. Some argue that both councils of state and ex gratia must be scrapped but l don’t necessarily agree with campaigners’ call for elimination of … Read more
..though ‘councils of state’ just like any other state institution, is holy enshrined in the constitution. But what vital significance or impact does it have as far as governance is concerned?.. Some argue that both councils of state and ex gratia must be scrapped but l don’t necessarily agree with campaigners’ call for elimination of … Read more
..though ‘councils of state’ just like any other state institution, is holy enshrined in the constitution. But what vital significance or impact does it have as far as governance is concerned?.. Some argue that both councils of state and ex gratia must be scrapped but l don’t necessarily agree with campaigners’ call for elimination of … Read more
Kweku Asare, a United States-based Ghanaian professor, has called for the abolishment of payment of ex gratia to outgoing ministers of states, Members of Parliament, and the president. According to him, this payment has no grounds in law, however is being demanded as if it was a statutory payment. His comment follows a recent 10 … Read more
Ghana’s Parliament has approved the report of the Presidential Committee on salaries and emoluments for Article 71 office holders including ex-gratia for outgoing President John Dramani Mahama. Details of the report are currently scanty because the approval was made in a closed-door meeting. Parliamentarians deliberated throughout the week after they resumed from their break on … Read more
Ghana’s Parliament has approved the report of the Presidential Committee on salaries and emoluments for Article 71 office holders including ex-gratia for outgoing President John Dramani Mahama. Details of the report are currently scanty because the approval was made in a closed door meeting. Parliamentarians deliberated on the Committee’s throughout the week after the resumed … Read more
A member of Ghana’s Parliament on the ticket of the outgoing National Democratic Congress has challenged members of the New Patriotic Party in Parliament to reject their end of service benefits if they think President Mahama should not be to passing last minute agreements. The NPP have expressed concerns about President Mahama’s approval of fresh … Read more
Parliament has resumed sitting Tuesday to consider salaries and emoluments for Article 71 office holders. The consideration of the ex-gratia payment will be one of the final activities of the sixth Parliament of the fourth Republic before its tenure elapses on January 6. Addressing the Members, the Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho, said the House was … Read more
Twenty-three former Agona West Municipal Assembly Members have threatened to take legal action against the assembly for failing to pay them their ex-gratia for more than two years. The threat was issued at the third ordinary session of the assembly at Agona Swedru. A spokesman of the members, Mr Jude Baffoe, former Assemblyman for Agona … Read more
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has confirmed it paid four former employees of the Corporation, comprising of two former Chief Executives and two Managers. A statement released by the Corporate Affairs Department of the GNPC, said two former Chief Executives of the Corporation, Messrs Tsatsu Tsikata and Nana Boakye Asafo-Adjei, as well as Benjamin … Read more