Former President John Mahama has asked the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to clearly state its opposition to his promise to scrap the payment of ex-gratia.
According to him, the NPP and its members cannot play hide and seek with his promise and thus must explicitly disclose its support or opposition to same for the Ghanaian people to know.
Mr Mahama said the scrapping of the ex-gratia is an issue that is of utmost importance to the citizenry and any party or presidential candidate should let their views on it known.
Delivering the keynote address at a programme organised on Wednesday, March on the theme “Financing political campaigns in Ghana we want: A case for more transparent and broad-based citizen participation” Mr Mahama said he will do whatever he can to scrap the payment to the Executive and also persuade the other arms or government to do same.
“Let me state once again that I will scrap the payment of ex-gratia to members of the Executive and persuade other arms of government to accept same.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
