The Office of former President John Dramani Mahama has once again activated cheap propaganda by claiming the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration has failed to pay Mr Mahama his monthly salaries since he left office.
Persons close to the former President appear to be comfortably peddling falsehoods that Mr. Mahama, unlike other former presidents, has not received his constitutionally approved monthly salary since losing the 2016 general elections humiliatingly.
The former president has however been regularly receiving his salaries.
Special aide to former President Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari told an Accra-based Okay FM yesterday that the current Akufo-Addo administration has failed to fulfill its mandate of paying the former President his emoluments as spelt out in the Professor Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh Presidential Committee on Article 71 Office Holders.
The spokeswoman said Lordina Mahama has been saddled with the responsibility of taking care of Mr Mahama, adding that former First Lady is a hard working woman with a lot of resources at her disposal.
She claimed they have been following up on the salary issues at the Office of the President but nothing has been done to address their concerns.
However, documents available to Daily Guide clearly show that the former president has received his full monthly salary since the NPP took office.
In fact, Mr. Mahama has so far been paid more than half a million Ghana cedis since the NPP took office on January 7, 2017.
The documents reveal that the current government was initially unable to pay the salary, as it had not settled down, and this position is supported by the fact that government at the beginning of its term did not pay its own staff.
The documents, however, reveal that former president John Dramani Mahama received his salary arrears of GH¢29,899 for 12 months, totalling GH¢388,687 which was paid into his ADB account at Adabraka Branch.
In fact the documents show that the former president has been consistently receiving his monthly salary of GH₵29,899 from January 2018 to July 18, 2018.
As at now, a net total of GH¢568,049.00 has been paid into the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) account of former President Mahama.
Special Aides
The documents revealed that approval was given to pay all the six staff at the office of the former president.
Interestingly, the six staff are taking home an annual salary of a whopping GH¢688,488.00 at the end of every year.
The breakdown of the figures indicates that Joyce Bawa Mogtari, who has been designated as a special assistant, is taking home a quarterly salary of GH¢56,511 and an annual salary of GH¢226,044, translating into GH¢18,837, which is more than the salary she took as Deputy Minister of Transport.
Another special assistant, Fidel Amakye Owusu, is also taking home quarterly and annual salary similar to Ms. Mogtari.
Three special aides to the former President, Wisdom Peter Awuku, Ernest Nkrumah Addo and Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a former deputy minister, are each taking home a quarterly salary of GH¢18,000 and an annual salary of GH¢72,000.
A driver at the same office is also taking a quarterly salary of GH¢5,100 and an annual salary of GH¢20,400.
It is therefore surprising to hear cohorts of the former president peddling falsehoods that their salaries have not been paid just to paint the current administration black in the eyes of Ghanaians.
In their attempt to defend their unjustifiable comments, they claimed Mr. Mahama provided all the senior aides to former Presidents with vehicles and fuel.
It is a fact that all the vehicles of former President John Agyekum Kufuor were taken from him and he had to make arrangements for his own vehicles during the tenure of the Mills-Mahama administration.
It took a long time for previous Mahama administration to get an office space for Mr Kufuor.
Daily Guide has learnt that the state is paying for Mr Mahama’s accommodation even though he is living in his own house at the back of the Ghana Trade Fair Centre, having moved from Chain Homes at Burma Camp where he resided after leaving office.
Source: Daily Guide
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Our constitution needs acute amendments. We still lack sight(vision) as a country and truth be told our democracy is ***barred word***.
AFTER ALL THE MONEY HE AND LORDINA STOLE, DO WE STILL HAVE TO PAY THEM? WHAT FOR? ND WHAT DO WE HAVE TO PAY JOYCE BAWA FOR AND FOR HOW LONG. THEY SHOULD GO BURN THE SEA.
So,after Felix Kwakye Ofosu pocketed 6 million dollars is still enjoying from the nation's coffers? God save Ghana!!
so sad the way this govt does politics. As for Daily Guide, Karma will come after u.Keeping on telling lies about the fine man.
The greedy John Ford Mahama again..... How can you be living in your own house and be taking rent from the state? No wonder this guy took a ford bribe from Kanazoe on top of all the state cars at his disposal..... Fucckking greedy guy....
Greedy ***barred word***.... Pure and simple.
ENOUGH OF THIS POLITICS. gHANAIANS ARE SUFFERING FROM BAD LEADERSHIP BY BOTH NDC & NPP. WE DONT CARE WHETHER MAHAMA IS PAID OR KUFUOR IS NOT PAID. WE DONT CARE. ALL U POLITICIANS SHOULD DIE & LEAVE GHANAIANS ALONE
YOU ARE A TYPICAL NDC MAN WHO WILL NOT READ AT ALL OR WHEN YOU READ AT ALL, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. THE DATES FOR PAYMENTS ARE AGAINST EACH PAYMENT SO HOW CAN YOU DRAW A CONCLUSION LIKE THAT. JOYCE MADE HER STATEMENT ON OKAY FM ON THE25TH OF JULY 2018 AND THE PAPER REPORTED IT ON THE 26TH OF JULY 2018. ARE YOU SAYING THAT LESS THAN 24 HOURS THE SALARIES WERE APPROVED AND PAID ? CLEARLY YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WORKING OF GOVERNMENT.
GHANAIANS DONT HAVE HOSPITAL BEDS, DRUGS, GOOD DRINKING WATER, GOOD ROADS, ECT,ECT, AND FORMER PRESIDENT STAFF ARE TAKING 18,000.00 CEDIS A MONTH.THE POOR MAN IN THE STREETS OF ACCRA CAN NOT EVEN HAVE A MEAL A DAY WHO CARES FOR THIS POOR MAN?ONE PERSON ENJOYING OVER 18,000.00 CEDIS A MONTH. I AGREE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT THAT THOSE COLLECTING OVER TEN THOUSAND CEDIS WILL BE TAXED THATS A GOOD IDEA FROM THE FIN. MINISTER.
why wouldn't the former first lady have a lot of resources at her disposal? if it was you in charge of contracts, wouldn't you? let her also bear some of the domestic burden. tenk yew