Three first-time NPP MPs accused of withholding overpaid salaries.
Three initial term Members of Parliament (MPs) of the administering New Patriotic Party, NPP, have been blamed for keeping compensations wrongly paid to them by the state.
The threesome are said to have would not discount the aggregates going somewhere in the range of GH¢131,000 and GH¢119,000, regardless of having been properly advised by the Controller and Accountant General.
The MPs being referred to incorporate Sylvester Tetteh, MP for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro, Stephen Jalulah of Pru West and Kintampo South MP, Alexander Gyan, who supposedly stashed GH¢131,000, GH¢119,000 and GH¢119,000 individually.
They procured pay rates as previous CEOs and DCEs, separately, notwithstanding their ongoing compensations as MPs, a Citi news report expressed.
The report focused on that Salaga North legislator, Alhassan Iddi, had discounted an overpaid amount of GH¢42,000 when he was informed by the Accountant General.
Sylvester Tetteh, a one-time Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority, NYA, has anyway excused the allegation and said he would request a statement of regret from the Accountant General.
He made sense of his situation in a meeting with Citi News: "It is awful. That isn't true, and I am profoundly disheartened. I have never drawn a twofold compensation, and I am a genuinely honorable man. The day I was delegated CEO of the National Youth Authority, I worked for north of 26 months for the power, I was never paid a compensation until I surrendered.
"The cycles were all the while progressing. At the point when I was confirmed as a Member of Parliament on the seventh of January, in February, I kept in touch with the Authority to handle my compensation as CEO for the NYA. They began the cycle, until March, and they requested that I go to the Comptroller and Accountant General to do my check to be paid."
In the mean time, the Pru West MP has discounted everything of over GHC119,000 cedis wrongly paid him as per records accessible to Citi FM. He filled in as DCE prior to winning a seat in Parliament.
Leader Director of common society bunch, the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability, ASEPA, in a meeting expressed that his outfit was chasing after the issue which he put down to a finance the executives issue.
"As we talk there are a few Members of Parliament who were previous DCEs whose records actually continued to record installment of compensations as DCEs and furthermore as MPs and you could see from the report that the Auditor General has requested that they discount them.
"It is extremely challenging to fault the MPs in question. This is a finance the executives issue. There is a tremendous disparity in our finance framework and there should be a logical move toward address this oddity," Mensah Thompson said.
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