THE SUPREME Court has ordered that all double salary Members of Parliament (MPs) and ministers should be served by way of substituted service after swerving service of the writ of summons issued against them.
Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, also known as Abronye DC, filed a suit against the former ministers including Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, challenging the payment of their salaries to them between 2009 and 2016 when they doubled as MPs and ministers or deputy ministers.
The court gave the order after the lawyer for Abronye DC, Seth Gyapong Oware, informed the court that the affected MPs and former government appointees are evading service of court processes.
Subsequently, the court directed that the processes should be posted on the notice boards of Parliament, Supreme Court and the Law Court Complex.
It also directed further publication in the Daily Graphic and Daily Guide newspapers within 14 days.
The defendants are Haruna Iddrisu, Alhassan Azong, Fifi Fiave Kwetey, Eric Opoku, Abdul Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Mark Owen Woyongo, Comfort Doyoe, Cudjoe Ghansah and Aquinas Tawiah Quansah.
The rest are the Controller and Accountant General and the Attorney General.
It is the case of Abronye DC that the affected MPs and former government appointees who received double salaries as MPs and ministers or deputy ministers is inconsistent with the constitution.
He contends that per Article 98 of the Constitution, the practice is unconstitutional, null and void.
He is, therefore, praying the Supreme Court to declare the payment as a violation of the constitution and an order to compel the MPs to refund the double salaries paid to them.
Abronye wants the Supreme Court to compel the former ministers/deputy ministers who served under the Mills-Mahama administrations, who were also elected MPs between 2009 and 2016, to pay back to the Republic, all double salaries received within the period.
The presiding judge, Justice Clemence Honyenuga, while granting the application, said “good and substantial reasons have been urged for the grant of the application.”
Source: Daily Guide
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Th!eves hiding in parliament as honourables..... This double salary case will be pursued to its full conclusion. If they are found guilty they must be sent to prison.
These people don’t qualify to hold public offices again. This is ***barred word***. The time to refund has elapsed. In some places, you go to jail when you refuse to inform the bank after a wrong deposit. The court should jail them.
The current system where parliament have a separate payroll must be discontinued. MP's are more or less public servants and they should be put on the central government payroll managed by the controller and accountant general. Currently it's the controller and accountant general that pays the president, vice president , ministers and their deputies, MMDCEs and members of the council of state. Now MP's who are also appointed ministers or deputy ministers are asked which of the 2 salaries they prefer to take, i.e. the controller one or the one from parliament. If they were all put on the mechanized payroll managed by the controller, the issue of double salary would have been impossible since every employee on the controller payroll have a unique staff/ employee number, if you take double salary the system will detect it, you can't even take double salary because your biometric data is fed into the system. Currently if you see the payslips of ministers on the controller payroll it's clearly indicated thus ' minister/ MP or minister/ non MP. In this case the checks and balances on the system avoids double mechanization or double salary for that matter. Now to why MP's have a different payroll outside the controller, only parliament can tell.
JOHN ***barred word*** MAHAMA IS NOT COMING NO WHERE TRUST ME. MAHA IS A ***barred word*** ***barred word*** LOOOOSER AMONG HIS PEERS AND HE WILL FALL FLAT IN 2024 MARK IT ON THE WALL. PEOPLE. NOT TO BE TRUSTED. OH NDC IGNOOOORACE IS DEASE SO WHAT ARE THEY TELLING THE YOUTH IN GHANA IGNOOOOORANCE UNRULLY, ARROOOOGANT. THIS CASE WAS CLEAR AS A DAYLIGHT SO WHY ARE STILL CANNOT UNDERSTAND, IS THE SAME IN GHANA, SAME IN AUSTRALIA,CANADA, AMERICA, BRITAIN, KENYA, SOUTH AFRICA. EVEN A STUDENT MARKING CLASS REGISTER WILL MARK STUDENTS IN THE CLASS WHO ARE PRENT AND MARK HIMSELF TOO SO WHERE DO THESE NDC UNDUCATED NEED TO UNDERSTAN LOOOOOOSERS LEADERS. DO YOUR RESEARCH AND YOU WILL SEE IT. THEY STILL TALKING TO MEDIA THAT THEY WILL NOT AGREED TO IT IN PARLIAMENT. IT A SHAME WE HAVE A PARTY THAT IS SO IGNOOOOORANT THAT IS NOT FUNNY. EVEN SO CALLED LAWYERS AMONG IS VERY SICCK.
This is long overdue and it’s not news anymore. H.E. The President should act swiftly and deal with corrupt officials or else what his government has been touting about corrupt officials in the country IS NOT TRUE. I will vote on that lines if nothing is done about corrupt officials. Where’s Woyomey? Oh Ghana! This is why I want Dr Bawumia to come with his digitisation ideas to curtail this cancer. Ghana MUST DEVELOP!