The state will pay GHS20, 211, 048 per annum as salaries for President Nana Akufo-Addo’s ministers and their deputies.
This implies that at the end of the four-year mandate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, the country would have spent a total amount of GHS 80, 844, 192 on salaries alone.
The 110 ministers comprise 50 substantive ministers, including regional ministers, and 60 deputies.
Assuming Mr Akufo Addo’s government is made of 19 cabinet ministers, government will have nine cabinet ministers who are MPs, 10 cabinet ministers who are non-MPs, 11 ministers who are MPs, 10 ministers who are non-MPs, one regional minister who is an MP, and nine regional ministers who are non-MPs.
The summary of the salary estimates was based on figures from a recommendation in a report of Presidential Committee on Emoluments signed by Prof Dora Francisca Edua-Buandoh, which announced a 10 per cent raise from January 2017.
Below is the list of Article 71 office holders and their respective salaries per the 10% raise:
Vice President – GH¢ 20,529
Chief Justice – GH¢17,107
Speaker of Parliament – GH¢ 17,791
Cabinet Minister (MP) – GH¢16,423
Cabinet Minster (Non MP) – GH¢ 16,195
Minister of State (MP) – GH¢ 15,967
Minister of State (Non MP) – GH¢ 15,739
Regional Minister (MP) – GH¢ 15,967
Regional Minister (Non-MP) – GH¢15,511
Deputy Minster (MP) – GH¢ 14,826
Deputy Regional Minister (MP) – GH¢14,598
Deputy Minister (Non-MP) – GH¢ 14,369
Dep. Regional Minster (Non-MP) – GH¢ 142,142
Chairman, Council of State – GH¢ 14,826
Member, Council of State – GH¢ 13,685
Source: classfmonline.com
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Leaders need to be schooled on how to balance common sense & PhD.
Lets stop the poor man incompetence talk. What is 20million cedis per annum compared with the waste mahama superintended. Anyone who is feeling dizzy by the model of governance the president is using must ask for explanation and stop mediocre thinking.
Do u know even your own president JA Kuffour didnt have this large number of government ministers? How come during the campaign the npp didnt mention that the problems we were facing was due to small number of ministers.
it's good that you see how incompetency you and your party are just with eight years that your came into power you manage to destroy everything you touch, and somebody has come to solve the problem with competent ministers you shouting Some of you who will survive to be clean from corruption to come back to Parliament I will advise you to study good governance from Nana Addo this man who has a team and they understand what they are doing even non-economist can read into their lay down plan. A word to a wise is enough.
I am highly disappointed in the man I voted for. How can any elite justify this ***barred word***?
It is due to the performance of the ndc during the 8 years misrule.
And all of this minus the benefits and allowances ooo. ***barred word*** tickets
Fear this government ooo, they are just coming to chop chop you and I our money. Mr president this is too much now Ghana is a small country and why too much ministers trust me these ministers you have appointed will not do anything just to chop our money. You are giving them this position because they campaigned for you. Can you explain to us the meaning of NON-MP? Know that you causing financial loss. Eiii NPP
NANA IS CAUSING FINANCIAL LOSS TO THE STATE!!!INCOMPETENT NANA ADMINISTRATION!!
***barred word*** president. c.r.imin.al president. a.z.ar president. you are protecting the public purse by distributing post to those who funded your election, but with our money-that is my problem. this is not ndc/npp issue. k.w.a.si.ampanyin president