The salaries of presidential staffers increased from GH¢136.2 million in 2020 to GH¢823.8 million in 2021, according to Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu.
He ascribed the rise to the Office of Government Machinery’s introduction of “amorphous positions.”
In a post on Facebook, he claimed that, “It is significant to observe from the 2021 Budget Statement — the year most of these amorphous positions were created at the Office of Government Machinery, that their Wages and Salaries shot up astronomically to GH¢823.8million from just GH¢136.2million in 2020 (an increment by a staggering 508.4%).
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“Compared with that of the entire Parliamentary Service (including non-parliamentarians), GH¢201.1million was budgeted in 2021 from GH¢140.4million in 2020 (representing an increase of 43.2%). Placed in perspective, the OGM salary increase by an additional GH¢687.6million in one year (508.4%) is more than the GH¢672million needed to pay NABCo workers for an entire year (see page 241 of 2021 Budget),” he said.
Despite this, NABCo workers have been underpaid for the past seven months, according to Mr. Ablakwa.
SOURCE: myjoyonline
