The National Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagba says it is not constitutional for the party communicators to be paid monthly.
According to him, the job comes with no mandatory salary as been purported.
“Defending the NPP is voluntary and it’s in our constitution,” he told NEAT FM’s morning show, 'Ghana Montie'.
His comment follows a scheduled strike by some members of the Ashanti regional communication team of the NPP.
The strike which was set to start Monday, January 30, 2023, has been called off following a crunch meeting between Richard Ahiagba and the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Frimpong Koduah late Sunday night.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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You see how bad politics is draining our scarce resources? Party communicators and by extension the political parties don’t generate resources but their communicators want to be paid from the public purse. They were being paid per my research indirectly. Why do we have ghost names every time that there’s a change in government? Institutions like NADMO, Non-formal education, etc have all these party foot soldiers on their payroll so when governments change, they are flagged as ghost names. Sometimes party officers are paid by cash, awarded contracts which are never executed but got paid in full. From my perspective, political party activists should exist as volunteers but that’s not the case here in Ghana.