Togbe Afede XIV went to 39 out of 242 gatherings of Council of State - Adom-Otchere
Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Good Evening Ghana, GEG, has expressed that Togbe Afede XIV, just went to 39 gatherings out of the 242 gatherings of the Council of State in four years.
As per him, the 39 gatherings that Togbe Afede was available, regarding rate, comprised 16%.
"Of the four years, the Council of State held 242 gatherings of which Togbe Afede XIV went to 39 [meeting]; it comprised 16%," Adom-Otchere said while doing a touchscreen investigation of Togbe Afede's letter making sense of why he dismissed the improper ex-gratia paid into his record.
He made sense of, "the Council of State is paid consistently and he [Togbe Afede] took every one of his pay rates, of which he is qualified for it. In giving us the portrayals, he ought to have expressed that he couldn't go to every one of the gatherings of the Council of State, yet he took every one of his compensations including his vehicle credit, a waiver from Ghana Ports and Harbor's Authority to import vehicles… how much monies government [took] off the advances that were paid to the Council of State individuals are more than the GH¢365k he is discussing, for a went to 16 individual percent of Council of State gatherings...
"Assuming you check the Council of State transportation stipends, Togbe's recompense was paid as of coming from Ho in the Volta locale; a portion of the individuals let me know that normally, he lives in Accra yet he said he was coming from Ho.
"Out of 242 gatherings that were held [by the Council of State], Togbe Afede, who seat's a board and whose gatherings are not many - as a director he was frequently not accessible - went to 16 percent of the gatherings and he took each remittance…
To Adom-Otchere, the Paramount Chief and the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli, should have the option to discount more than GH¢365k of the cash he has discounted.
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Togbe Afede XIV, Paramount Chief and the Agbogbomefia of the Asogli, has been making sense of his goal not to acknowledge over GH¢365,000 ex-gratia paid to him for serving on the Council of State somewhere in the range of 2017 and 2020.
As per him, it isn't fitting to get the said sum when he was being paid month to month for filling in as a Council of State part.
"While dealing with my expense forms towards the finish of last year, I got charge receipts from the Council of State Secretariat that demonstrated that some cash was paid into my ledger in July, 2021 as "Ex Gratia" for my four-year function as an individual from the Council of State, 2017-2020.
"I applied for and got an assertion from my brokers that affirmed that for sure some cash was paid into my record. I in the end affirmed from the Council of State Secretariat that the amount of GH¢365,392.67 was paid into my record as Ex Gratia.
"I didn't think the installment was made to trap me, as is being guessed. I accept it was paid to every individual who served on the Council of State. Nonetheless, I believed that additional installment was unseemly for a short, really temporary work, for which I got a month to month pay and was qualified for different honors. Along these lines, I was truly awkward with it," Togbe Afede XIV made sense of in his proclamation.
The financial specialists man additionally expressed that he investigated approaches to returning the cash which has been in his record since July 2021, which he effectively affected on March 4, 2022.
"Following quite a while of endeavoring, I got guidance on the most proficient method to discount unseemly installments to the State, and on March 4, 2022, I made the discount into the Controller and Accountant General's Department Suspense Account at the Bank of Ghana," he said.
Togbui Afede proceeded: "In my letter to the Secretary, Council of State, I expressed that 'It was a significant privilege for me to have served on the Council of State for a very long time, 2017 to 2020. Despite the fact that I filled in as director of one of the three boards of trustees of the Council, the Economy and Special Development Initiatives Committee, and partook completely in the Council's exercises, I don't think my work justified the installment to me of a giant amount of GH¢365,392.67, as Ex Gratia, notwithstanding the compensation I delighted in based on what was successfully a temporary work'.
"I need to add that my dismissal of the installment was reliable with my overall loathing of the installment of enormous Ex Gratia and other absurd advantages to individuals who have independently proposed to serve our unfortunate country," Togbui Afede's assertion closed.
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