The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has called for a review of the Single Spine Salary Structure to address the wide salary disparity in the formal sector.
Pastor Emmanuel Appiah-Kubi, a Principal anti-corruption officer at the Brong-Ahafo Regional Office of the CHRAJ made the call at a forum to mark this year's constitution week on Friday.
Reacting to concerns at the forum in Sunyani, Pastor Appiah-Kubi expressed discomfort that the implementation of that pay policy had rather widened the salary disparity in the public sector.
A police officer had earlier raised the concerns at the forum organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in Sunyani for officers of the Regional Police Command.
Pastor Appiah-Kubi partly attributed the rise in corruption to the poor salaries and working conditions of some public officers, and stressed the need for urgent review of the pay policy.
"If you compare public officers on the Article 71 to some of us you will find out that our conditions of service are very poor", he said.
Pastor Appiah-Kubi said corruption remained the bane of the nation’s socio-economic development, noting that until the menace was tackled in a proactive manner, it would be difficult to fight it.
He cited that Malaysia in particular had been able to fight and minimise corruption because it tackled the menace in a collective manner devoid of political interference and bias.
Madam Doris Gbongbo, the Acting Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of the NCCE said the rise in corruption had exposed and dented the image of the country in the international community.
She said each and every individual had a role to play and appealed to public institutions and organisations to make concerted efforts to fight the canker.
Source: GNA
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Those without special skill will be used to embark on farming for more produce for foreign exchange, school feeding, to local market, for the prisoners themselves. Government will at the end be finding for prisoner instead of the order way round.
I agree with the proposal, because salary must properly Structured. That is why people are more corrupt because Salary can't even cater for food let alone school fees, utility and other matters. After restructuring government must be ready to sack offenders, imprison offenders etc. GOVERNMENT should open up prison system, categorized prisoners into the various skills and those without. 1.those with handy work will be taken to the field to work for government with engineers and supervisors rather than given contractors for inferior work. 2.Auditors of all contracts must be given timeline if damages occurs must be sentenced to prison irrespective of your political affiliation. We should begin imprisoning public officials for not less than 10years. Ghana will change within short time. Thank u
I wonder how corruption could be erased in Ghana. This is because we leave in a country where politicians, [the executive, legislatures and judiciary ] are ***barred word*** the public purse in the very eyes of the poor citizens. How can an ordinary citizen refuse bribe or fail to be corrupt if our lawakers are taking double salaries, rent allowance while they are still occupying state bungalows but the government failed to enforce the law to punish them accordingly?