President Akufo-Addo has returned GHC237,974, being the compensation increase conceded to him from January to August, this year.
The assets, paid into the Annuities and Pay rates Record of the Regulator and Bookkeeper – General's Specialty, is in satisfaction of his vow during the current year's May Day festivity, not to raise his compensation, that of the VP, clergymen and their appointees, and other government arrangements.
The action is to limit the adverse consequence of the Coronavirus pandemic on Ghana's public money.
This was unveiled, in Accra, on Tuesday by Mr Eugene Arhin, Head of Correspondences at the Administration, at the week by week Celebration House Press instructions
Mr Arhin clarified that when the President accepted his accumulated compensation for the period, he saw that the mandate to freeze increases on his compensation for 2021 had not been upheld, in this way, "showing others how its done" he composed a keep an eye on September 2, 2021, to cover the additions on his compensation to mirror the choice he took to decrease the weight on the public satchel.
The compensation additions were those proposed by the Educator Yaa Ntiamoah-Baidu drove Official Council on Payments.
Be that as it may, the President had vowed to freeze pay increases for the Leader a long time before the Council supported compensation changes for Article 71 officeholders.
Mr Arhin said different deputies of State, including the VP, were all to discount the distinction that they have received.He said the Head of Staff, Madam Akosua Frema Osei-Opare had imparted that mandate to all priests, representative pastors and staff at the Administration.