Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a former Deputy Minister of Communications has dared the Akufo-Addo-led government to reduce salaries of his appointees just as ex-president John Mahama did in order to complete the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHIPS) compounds project around the country.
According to him, there is still a backlog of debt to pay the contractors who executed most of the completed projects.
Therefore, to the extent that the NDC government is out of office, appointees of the new government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) must follow the example of the Mahama administration by sacrificing some percentage of their salaries towards completion of the projects.
Mr Kwakye Ofosu threw the challenge to the government while providing explanation about what the 10% pay cut accruals of the Mahama administration was used for following media reports that it could not be accounted for by the Controller and Accountant General.
He told Moro Awudu, host of the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class 91.3FM on Thursday August 10 that: “As of December 2016 6 of the CHIPS compounds had been competed, 5 were nearing completion and 1 was at foundation stage.
“The total contract sum was GHS 2, 549,112.76 which meant that there was deficit of about 400,000 to pay to the contractors who had executed the job.
“Of course we had hoped that we will continue to be in government so that we will be able to raise that money to complete all the projects but perhaps the president will impress upon its appointees to make the same sacrifice that we made.”
On Wednesday, 9 August, the Deputy Controller and Accountant General Kwesi Owusu told the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament that the money cannot be traced.
Mr Owusu said: “...As to what they have done with the money that one is not an area for us to answer because it was not statutory deductions which we should have taken and then say pay to SSNIT or pay to GRA. This one was a voluntary deduction so when you deduct, you give it to the one who asked you to deduct on his behalf.”
But Mr Kwakye Ofosu further explained that: “A total of GHS2,190,718.30 had been deducted as of the end of December,2016. A total of GHS 2,130,718.30 had been paid to contractors who had either completed or were working on the CHPS compounds. Regarding the CHPS compounds themselves, a total of five had been completed at Gympokrom and Kwame Prakrom in the Upper Denkyira East District, Ada East in Greater Accra, Nkwanta Number 1 & 2 in the Western Region and Abontonso in the Afram Plains North District of the Eastern Region.
“Another five were almost completed at Faso Bator and Supon in the Afram Plains North District as well as Dome, Gadokope and Samankwe in the Afram Plains South District.
“Another one was nearing completion at Tetegu Old Town in the Greater Accra Region. The last one was at foundation level at Ho Zongo as of the time we were leaving office,” he added.
He, therefore, disputed assertions that the money cannot be traced. “Any claim, therefore, that the monies so deducted cannot be accounted for, is most misleading and inaccurate.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Massa. You are tooo stuuuupiddd to advice Nana. Only a foooooolllll and an eddddiot like Mahana will listen to your advice. That is why he was sackkkked by the voters.
Your mother should cut her pay. You are a ***barred word***, Did you not hear that Ghanaians voted out incompetence? Did cutting the pay reduce Mahama's incompetence? Ghanaians did not vote for Nana Addo to do dummmb and stuuuupppid things like make an iddddddiot like you a deputy minister. Mahama lost because he was incompetent enough to make certified phuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuls like you a deputy minister. Save your fooooooooooooooolish advice for Mahama and not for Nana. Abuuuuuuuuuuuuuwa
Look at his face, hypocrisy at it's peak at least the accountant general has made us aware that the so called cuts were given back to the donors so stop throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians. Chop chop gov't: You will never come back to power I pray we get a third force in Ghana. Ah God save Ghana wai.
ONLY ***barred word*** AND ***barred word*** GHANAIANS WILL BUY YOUR MAHAMA'S PUBLICITY STUNT. MAHAMA TRULY DESERVES TO BE JAILED OR FACE THE FIRING SQUAD THAT RAWLINGS MISUSED IN KILLING INNOCENT GHANAIANS. ....
...cut it by 10 percent, increase it by more than 20 percent and turn around to peg the effective date to three years back. You guys must think Ghanaians are very stupidos indeed!. But then we might be, considering we sat there and did little about that.
This boy is back coming to talk trash, can felix kwakye set agenda for the NPP to follow. Babies with sharp teeth..
This is craptology in the highest order. Who asked President Mahama to cut his pay? Cut pay then you Create, Loot and Share what use is that? Give it with the left hand collect it back with the right so you can take more eno so ye den adi?
THIS SMALL BOY WITH SHARP TEETH CALL OFOSU KWAKYE ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED OF YOUESELF BRINGING YOUR DIRTY MOUTH INTO THIS MATTER? TALKING ABOUT JOHN MAHAMA? A BIG THIEFFFFFFFF LIKE THIS? BACK DATING HIS SALARY FOR FOUR YERS AND CLAMING OVER MILLIONS OF CEDIS AND WHEN LIVING OFFICE INCREASED HIE SALARY IOO PERCENT? A BIG THIEFFFF LIKE JOHN MAHAMA GOD WILL PUNISH HIM 99 TIMES BEFORE HE LIVE THIS EARTH.
This Felix boy is a f000.00l. Greedy John Mahama increased his salary and backdated it. He then cosmetically cut it to win votes but it did not work. F000lishhh boy get lost.... You NDC people know no shame. Your partyt will never rule this country again. NDC th.i.ev.es
Young man, note that JDM took a lot of Ghana's money unlawfully as well as yourself and cronies to the extent that JDM had an aircraft purchased with state money but said his brother bought it for him as a gift. That 10% idea was an insult to Ghanaians compared to how much the NDC took unlawfully that belonged to the citizenry. If you believe your pay was too much why did you increase it in the first place or accept the increase. There is no need to dare the sitting President because he is not going to accumulate Ghana's money like you people did. He is working for Ghana at least for now!