The NPP’s Bono Regional Chairman and communicator Kwame Baffoe well known as Abronye DC has sued the Attorney General following the approval of payment of salaries for the spouses of the President and Vice President.
The NPP’s communicator is asking for a declaration that the approval by Parliament to pay salaries to the First and Second ladies is inconsistent with Article 71 Clauses 1 and 2 of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana and consequently be declared null, void and unenforceable.
He added a writ which states that….per Articles 108 and 178 of the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana: Parliament, cannot on its own accord, initiate or approve payment of any such emoluments: which would necessarily be paid from public funds: without a bill to that effect emanating from and introduced by the Government and dully passed into law.
Not only Mr. Abronye has sued the Attorney General but two minority members of Parliament Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, MP for South Dayi and Dr. Clement Apaak of Builsa.
This was after the Parliament of Ghana approved that the spouses of the President and Vice President should enjoy salaries after government adopted a recommendation by emolument committee.
Prior to this new development, the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah disclosed that under John Agyekum Kuffour’s government he made arrangement for the First Lady and Second Lady to enjoy allowances but it didn’t have any formal documentation since the beginning of his administration in 2000.
He added that the allowances given to the wife of the President and the Vice President was always considered as part of the privileges of the President and Vice President.