The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has described the decision by the First Lady to refund all monies paid to her in allowances since 2017, in line with recommendations made by the presidential committee on emoluments for Article 71 office-holders, as a mark of ingratitude.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s decision is coming on the back of the huge public outcry that has greeted government’s decision to put her and the Second Lady on monthly remuneration.
“I have sighted a letter purporting to be from the Office of the First Lady angrily claiming it is going to refund all allowances paid the first lady since 2017 because Ghanaians are talking too much about the recent recommendations by the Prof. Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu Committee to pay first/second ladies the same salaries as cabinet ministers,” Mensah Thompson, the executive director of ASEPA, posted on Facebook.
He added: “First of all, apart from the tone of the letter being unnecessarily arrogant, this smacks a huge sense of INGRATITUDE from the first lady. This letter goes a long [way] to show how unaccommodating the first lady is to public criticisms.”
Thompson said if the First Lady cannot contain the outburst of the taxpayer then she should refund everything the state has done for her.
“Oya refund everything and from now on, don’t use anything that belongs to the taxpayer if you cannot contain the taxpayers’ outbursts.
“But once we continue to finance your living from head to toe, Auntie Becky we will talk papa, Hw3!!! Tax tua y3 ya papa,” he said.
Refunding allowances
Rebecca Akufo-Addo and Samira Bawumia have both said they are refunding all allowances paid to them since 2017 and will also not accept any monthly remuneration.
In a statement issued on Monday 12 July 2021, the Office of the First Lady said: “… the public discussion has been laced with some extremely negative opinions, in some cases, which she finds distasteful, seeking to portray her as a venal, self-serving and self-centered woman, who does not care about the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
“In view of this, the First Lady, in consultation with the President of the Republic, has decided to refund all monies paid to her as allowances from the date of the President’s assumption of office, ie, from January 2017 to date, amounting to GHC899,097.84.
“The First Lady has also decided not to accept any monies that have been allocated to be paid to her pursuant to the recommendations of the Ntiamoa-Baidu Committee, as approved by Parliament,” the statement signed by Korkor Bleboo, director of communications in the Office of the Second Lady, said.
Meanwhile, Bawumia is set to refund a total amount of eight hundred and eighty-seven thousand, four hundred and eighty-two (GHC 887,482) she has thus far received as allowances from January 2017 to March 2021.
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ARROGANCE AND INGRATITUDE ARE THOSE WHO DUPED GHANA IN AIRBUS SCANDAL
This man paaaaa. I don't know how to describe you. Arrogance and ingratitude? You insulted her, now she says take your money and she's suddenly become arrogant? Eeee, m4
I hope this ***barred word***, Mensah Thompson and his bogus so called ASEPA CSO will see from all the comments that he has just exhibited his insignificance in public. He and his other irrelevant CSOs always talk about tax payers money, but no one knows the work they do and what taxes they pay. All they know is sit on talk shows and use various social media platforms to spew garbage everyday.
Your pettiness and poverty of character is baffling.Have you forgotten all the good works this lady and the second lady have done for the ordinary people in this country?As some of you cretins are loudly calling on her to return the monies she's been paid as allowances ,do i hear calls for her to dismantle all the edifices she's built through her NGO?You petty minded foreigner born with a poverty mentality.That lady was not born into poverty like some of you motherf***ckers cringing in your hovels and calling yourselves CSOs ,The ones who should be ashamed of themselves are you and your wretched CSO
Ingratitude to who? To you or who. You have the audacity to speak ill about the First lady. Be very very careful.
Sometimes I just feel that let's leave these nincompoops to grow and mature in life and experience to come out of pettiness and their noisy effusions of ignorance from their "backside". You young persons who have never made any impact in life for themselves sit on radio to bash all leaders left, right centre as if they know everything from A to Z. Give them the opportunity to do anything and they mess up big time. All around us are these young men and women. You leave your shop for them and they steal till the business goes bankrupt. You are insulting the first lady for allowances paid to her which the President, in his usual abhorrence for underhand deals, wishes to regularise. She decides that she has her good name to protect so she refunds it and this thing is at it again insulting. I really feel like vomiting but time, money and power will test him some day. I rest my case.
***barred word*** talk,talk sense small wai,kwasiato
Sometimes I wonder if some of these soo called cso's are really working for what they say they are doing or for their stomach. The first lady said enough of the insults and name calling.i don't want the money and will refund everything u have given me. U are disrespecting her by saying she is arrogant. Seriously. I would rather suggest to you and your ndc party to tell lordina mahatma to follow suit with her example.she has putting u all to shame with de refund. Hypocrites. Cso's
VERY FUNNY CHARACTERS IN THE FOLD OF ASEPA, WHO WANT TO COVER THEIR SHAME WITH A SURPRISING HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE THEMSELVES
And who made you the judge as to where its arrogance? You encourage barrage of insults against the first lady simply because parliament had passed a recommendation in law. So what really is your beef. U guys ride on the back of so CSO to mislead the public and turn around to showcase the highest level of hypocrites and double standards. Give us a break.