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| Prof Stephen Adei |
In an interview with Accra based Class FM, Prof. Adei said the 4% increment should have been o% increment.
“… The people saying [the] 4 per cent [pay rise] is not enough; actually, to be honest, it should have been zero per cent. Yes”.
“The situation in the country is such that except that – I must qualify it – you cannot say zero per cent for them and other people get 70 per cent or get an increase”, the former Board Chair of the Ghana Revenue Authority clarified.
“It should have been zero across the board because the message should have been sent that we are in a crisis, so, we can’t have ‘Monkey dey chop baboon dey work’”, he explained.
He said the president’s decision not to accept a pay rise for himself and the executive was enough to have signalled to the rest of the country that it was time to make sacrifices.
“The president has come out and yet, in Ghana, good news is not good news. The president has said that all the increase, which was recommended, he is not going to accept it; as well as his vice and his ministers, and you know, it was just a flash in the pan”, Prof Adei observed.
“He [president] gave the instruction right from the beginning and what he has done is that, still, automatically, the Controller and Accountant General paid it into his account so he was refunding it. But whatever it is, whether it is from the outcry [of Ghanaians] or not, if you are a leader, it’s a good example. It says that: ‘We are in difficulty and, therefore, I’m – whether he was prompted or reacting – going for zero’. Then the other people should know that their 4 per cent is actually higher”, Prof Adei said.
In July, the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah announced a salary increment for civil servants.
The committee, made up of government, organised labour and employers have agreed to a 4 percent increase in base pay for public sector workers in 2021. They have also agreed to a 7 percent base pay increase for 2022. This means that if you are paid GH¢1,000, you will receive a GH¢40 top-up this year
source| pulse.com.gh
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