NPP ex-ministers in Parliament to sue Mills
Members of Parliament who were ministers in the Kufuor administration are threatening to go to court if it is established that their delayed end of service benefits to be paid will be based on the Ishmael Yamson committee report.
Majority Leader Alban Bagbin told Joy News earlier Tuesday that MPs who served between 2004 and 2008 have been paid their ex gratia.
But former President Kufuor and former ministers are yet to benefit from the latest payment.
The Minority nearly boycotted proceedings on Tuesday in protest of the non-payment of their colleagues’ ex gratia.
It is not clear whether the Mills administration is working with the Chinery Hesse report or the Ishmael Yamson report, which recommended a reduction from seven to six months salary payment.
But some members of the Minority have made it clear they would go to court if the Ishmael Yamson committee’s report is implemented.
“This issue should not be looked at as a money issue; it’s a constitutional issue. It’s not for nothing that the constitution has inbuilt checks and balances for governance in this country,” MP for Effia-Kwesimintim and former minister for Trade, Joe Baidoo-Ansah, told Joy News.
He said instead of the constitutionally mandated convention that Parliament endorses emoluments for the President whilst the legislators approve what goes to the President, both roles are being performed by only the President.
“We have a situation now that the President himself has become Parliament and President,” Mr Baidoo Ansah said. Source: JFM
THE MPS FROM 1992-2008 DON,T DESERVE THIS EX GRATIA BECAUSE,AS LAW MAKERS,UP TILL NOW THEY HAVEN,T DONE ANYTHING LAWFULY FOR THE NATION.WE STILL USE THE OLD COLONIAL LAWS WHICH ONLY PROTECTS THE INTEREST OF EXPATRATES,AND THEREBY MAKING OUR COUNTRY TO BE INFLUENCED AND PARTLY RULED BY FOREIGNERS.THESE MPS DON,T KNOW THEIR JOB THEREFORE THEY DON,T DESERVE THIS EX GRATIA.POINT.
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Atta Mills should administer our country
with an application of our constituition
not by his own powers.
He should also administer powers with concent not by autocratic means, we are
no longer under the Military Rule we are
rather in democratic rule, therefore
democratic means of administration should also be applied.
Should Atta Mills fails to do this, he
should be called to asnwer his actions
at the High Court to justifies his inclusions.
NDC has no slightest idea about how
democracy is administered, NDC consist
of bunch of people with prejudice, tribalistic and jealousy ideas, and not to unite our country.
NDC again is not a credible Political
party and should be disbanded immediately after the 2012 Elections
as soon as NPP takes control of the
Government, to bring Peace and Tranquility into our country.
The next NPP President if is Nana Akuffo Addo or whoever, should treat
the NDC Ministers and Atta Mills the
same way they are treating NPP Ministers, Mps and NPP Government officials.
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