A latest report picked up by Pinaxnews.com indicates that the young wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has pronounced a #NoSalaryUprising for Presidential spouses demanding the choice is unlawful.
As indicated by the fundamental resistance youth wing, they will persevere relentlessly to guarantee the endorsement of allowances for the spouses of Presidents and Vice Presidents is turned around.
A five-part remittance board which was set up in June 2019 by President Nana Akufo-Addo in addition to other things suggested the said stipend.
While affirming that there had been an addition in the allowances for the life partners of the President and the Vice-President, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah underscored that that was an endorsement given by the Seventh Parliament.
In the mean time, the Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh has contended that if Government needs to pay First as well as Second Spouses from the public fisc, it’s anything but a Bill with that impact.
George Opare Addo who doubles as the National Youth Organiser on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had this to say in a statement and part of the statement reads;
”In line with this, the Youth Wing will in the coming days invoke the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to declare this cancerous and insensitive act unconstitutional.”
