All Ministers of State, the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, the deputy Chiefs of Staff, Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Cabinet, Presidential Staffers and Presidential Aides at the Presidency have decided to donate fifty percent (50%) of their salaries, for the next three months, i.e. April, May and June, to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund, established by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the fight against the virus and to assist in the welfare of the needy and the vulnerable.
All Deputy Ministers have also agreed to donate fifty percent (50%) of their salaries for the next two months, i.e. April and May, into the Fund.
As a result, the Chief of Staff, Hon. Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, has notified the Controller and Accountant General to effect these deductions at source for the period, and transfer the accrued monies into the Fund.
It will be recalled that during his broadcast to the nation on Friday, 27th March, 2020, President Akufo-Addo announced the setting up of the Fund, and donated his next three months’ salary into the Fund as seed capital.
The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, also followed suit, and has donated three (3) months of his salary into the Fund.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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thats a very positive move...i wish all our renowned rich pastors will emulate the same thing....
Thank you for the positive and encouraging gesture. May the good Lord help Ghana and the world overcome the pandemic and may the Lord richly bless you all.
These are really good gestures of solidarity and a unified recognition that if we really harness our good intentions and resources together we can do a lot for the most vulnerable of our people which really is what public service should be about. That is the goal of the president when he announced the setting up of this fund. But as is common in this country we often do these gestures of "public shows" only to deny the intended beneficiaries of these impact alleviation programs. A case fresh in my mind is the wanton dissipation of Getfund where ministers of state and MPs were deemed as "brilliant but needy" students for which inflated and ridiculous amounts of tax payers monies were dished out to them. We just hope and pray that it is not a case of "I will publicly donate it but I will privately collect it back in private with interest through another means". God is watching!