“If it turns out that there was a double payment and the state was not alerted because of the systemic flaws; either it can amount to political immorality or a case of dishonesty. It can also be a contravention of our laws that can be prosecuted in a court” said Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku constituency, Dr Bernard Oko-Boye.
An ongoing probe by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) into the allegations of double salary paid to some appointees of the former government has been the subject of public debate amid claims of political witch-hunting.
25 of the MPs were initially asked to report to the police, but 18 of them were later asked to disregard that invitation.
So far, about eight of them have been interrogated by the CID.
Already, Parliament has announced the formation of a two-member bi-partisan committee to investigate the double salary scandal.
The Ledzokuku MP, who was speaking to the issue during a panel discussion on Peace FM morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, Friday, said it will be misleading for any Member of Parliament to feign ignorance of any deposit in their account.
“It is misleading to say MPs don’t know their pay. As MPs what we take now, we know so immediately it changes, you should be aware. It will be an indictment and a serious act of negligence if as MP; you claim to be ignorant of money that comes into your account…To know the weakness of the system and to do nothing about especially if you are in a position to do so; it is unfair, immoral and cannot be justified” he point out.
Meanwhile, John Jinapor, speaking on the same platform, urged that politics be taken out of the discussion.
"What is being done about the systematic failure that caused the double payment in the first place? Investigations must be done alright but it must be void of politics. The politics must be taken out (to avoid) the whole issue being turned upside down," he said.
According to him, issues like this (double pay saga) paint a bad picture of parliamentarians “and so steps must be taken to investigate the matter as well as correct what is going on wrong”
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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Massa; these NDC stillers who worked under this northner Jon Mahama do not get the drift of what is gradually happening in Ghana because Ghana is gradually changing with the young realising that their future is at stake ; they have come realise that the failure of both the NDC inability to provide jobs is by reason of these massive raping of the state coffers through this double Pay saga; housing allowance saga and other allowances ;corruption and stilling through awards of contracts pertuated by the NDC thiffs ;how on earth do you deliberately run down a bank turn round and borrow the assets of the bankrupt bank and sellit individuual NDC politicians and say the bank is not functioning ; the youth have come realise that these politicians are there to still from the people ; most6 of them have never worked in their lives and have experience of doing business or creating JObs for others so how on earth can they go to parliament to create jobs for others ; majority of these MPs are just boot leakers and political thiffs raping Ghana of its resources 'BIG TIME' but they are being gradually exposed besides NDC as a party does not realise the end game because by the time the whole issue is resolved most of their key political advocates may have beemn criminalised by courts and some may not run for office again ; take the case of Harunna Iddrissu a fine and eloquent NDC politician and leader of the minority ; Haruna has a past record of being corrupt during his University days ; no wonder heis caught of in such scandal and look at Fuseni Inusa a lawyer and a fine politician who may caught up in this double salary saga; for me WE SOME GHANAIANS ARE JUST EVIL AND WILL EVEN SELL THEIR OWN CHILDREN FOR CASH ; how can an individual aset up two seperate accounts to collect an MPs salary and a ministers salary when they know it is WRONG !!!!!; WHEN DEALING WITH THE GAHAIAN YOU SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL BECAUSE WE ARE JUST EVIL anmd a class of satanic BEINGS!!!! ; HOW CAN PROGRESS WITH SUCH EVIL POLITICAL ELITE !!!!!
OKUDJETO AND CO, AYARIGA, SUHUYINI AND VANDERPUY HAVE BEEN CRYING CORRUPTION WHERE THERE WAS NO CORRUPTION. NOW THAT THERE IS TRUE CASE OF CORRUPTION, AND NOT JUST A FIGMENT OF IMAGINATION BY TWISTED MINDS, WE DO NOT HEAR FROM OKUDJETO, AYARIGA, SUHIYINI AND CO. THIS MUST BE CLEAR TO EVEN INCORRIGIBLE MINDS THAT OKUDJETO AND CO ARE JUST COWARDS AND PRETENDERS. THEY HAVE NO INTEGRITY.
I HAVE LISTEN TO THIS DR. ON NEWS FILE AND KOOKROKOO. HE IS LEVEL HEADED, VERY INTELLIGENT AND HE HAS PASSION AGAINST CORRUPTION, A TRAIT SIMILAR TO OTHERS LIKE MARTIN AMIDU, KUSI BOAFO, NANA ADDO, KENNEDY AGYAPONG. WE NEED MORE SUCH PEOPLE IN OUR BODY POLITICS TO MOVE THE NATION IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. IN SPITE OF HYPOCRITICAL NATURE OF NDC, THE LACK PEOPLE OF SUCH INTEGRITY OR FAIL TO APPRECIATE THEIR INPUT.
These STEALERS are not "HONORABLES".