Residents of Ejisu in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region have expressed gratitude to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the nomination of their Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. John Ampontuah Kumah, as a Deputy Finance Minister.
According to them, John Kumah’s nomination is an ample indication of the confidence the President has reposed in him to occupy such a high-profile office as the Deputy Finance Minister.
They assured the President and his government of their support for Hon. John Kumah in all ways to ensure that, he performs and excels in that position to justify the confidence reposed in him.
Absence of a salaries commission promotes inequality
Monday April 19 2021
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We do not begrudge judges good salary and retirement benefits, but we want to see value for money
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A few years ago, one of the last acts of Bart Katurebe as Chief Justice was to see through the passing and assent of the Administration of Justice Act, 2019, which, among others, led to the improvement in the remuneration of judicial officers, and guaranteed a hefty payout in the name of consolidated benefits, gratuity and pensions to officers in retirement.
In some cases, the judicial officers would take 100 per cent of their last pay cheque as a monthly pension.
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MP for Madina Constituency, Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu Member of Parliament (MP) for Medina Constituency, Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu, has called on President Akufo-Addo to be proactive in the fight against corruption and to “desist from fighting anti-corruption institutions and the use of security apparatus to intimidate independent journalists who seek to expose corruption in the performance of their duties.”
The call was in response to President Akufo-Addo’s remarks and actions over the years pertaining to the fight against corruption in the country.
On Wednesday April 14, 2021, Pesident Akufo-Addo, speaking at a National Consultative Diaglogue on Small-Scale Mining indicated that he is determined to “enforce the laws on illegal mining no matter the subject, high or low.”
The Chief Justice made the remarks while addressing members of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, who had paid him a courtesy call at the High Court in Kampala