The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has charged the wife of former President John Dramani Mahama, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, to refund all monies or allowances paid to her between January 2009 and June 2021.
In a one-on-one interview with Paa Kwesi Schandorf on TV Africa on Tuesday, 13th July, 2021, Mr. Boadu admonished Mrs. Lordina Mahama to replicate the gesture made by Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo.
“Schandorf, let me say this emphatically. Former President Mahama’s wife, Lordina Mahama, must, as a matter of urgency, refund all monies paid to her since January 2017 till now. Those she received as far back as 2009 should also be refunded. The monies she has received from that time till now would amount to GHC3.2 million,” John Boadu said.
The call on Lordina Mahama to refund monies paid to her as allowances come on the heels of Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo having decided to refund all monies paid to her since 2017.
The Ghanaian media landscape has been awash with criticisms of the Ntiamoa Commission’s decision to regularize allowances paid to First and Second Ladies, whether past, present or in future.
An impression was created by a section of the general public including the TUC, NDC and some Civil Society Organizations that only Mrs. Rebecca Akuffo-Addo and Hajia Samira Bawumia are beneficiaries of these allowances being turned into salaries.
These misconceptions and vitriolic attacks have led to the First Lady declining the decision of the Committee and indicating her decision to refund all monies paid to her since January 2017.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Npp general secretary is maddddd who spoke against allawance, Ghanaians talk against salaries and back pay to mr AKUFO addo's wife,which is not legal did boadu took apiooooo be4 talking in any way kuffours wife and konadu and Mills wife took allawance be4 lording so why not entirely terisa Kuffour dis npp fooollllsssssss are too many aba
I'm very much disappointed that no Ghanaian, the know-it-all better activists, are not acknowledging the recommendation that the First Ladies be paid salary as a policy of the President in light of his resolve to fight against corruption. It invariably gets rid of all the ditches, likely to present conduit for breeding corruption. It is only expedient to regulate emolument, just as to be accountable, and assessable for transparency. Disappointingly, no word has been lost on those attributes. Unfortunately, the fabrication of lies and trivializing issues for parochial political gains have sadly been the mainstream opposition partisan politics. At the expense of issue-based debates and constructive criticism for which democracy strives. The NDC as an opposition party bitterly lacks all those good attributions and credentials of democratic Governance in our part of the world. Theirs has always been maligning the ruling Government dreadfully, assuming the very worst about it to get it out of Government. This tactic of diabolism seems pretty much not to be working this time while it poses to work counterproductively against the NDC. And, I confidently put it on the wall that the next administration is going to be formed by the NPP. Then, the industrialization program of the Akufo-Addo regime is transformational and needs to be continued with competent hands.
@PAA MILLS are you a zombie?
Comrades, NDC as a political party are the most ***barred word*** minded characters .Mr. Mahama paid GHC 3.2million to his wife