A legal practitioner has revealed why the promise of former President John Dramani Mahama to cancel the payment of ex-gratia to Article 71 holders should not excite Ghanaians.
The former President at the launch of his re-election campaign bid at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho, Mr. Mahama said he will ensure the payment of ex-gratia is canceled as has been the call of many Ghanaians.
“The payment of ex-gratia to members of the executive will be scrapped. The necessary Constitutional steps to take this will start in earnest in 2025. We will also persuade members of the other arms of government to accept its removal,” Mahama stated.
But Noble Crosby Annan, a lawyer has shot down the expectations of Ghanaians about the promise. “This is not a decision that is made by Parliament,” he said as quoted by 3News. He added that “For all of us who have hope, we should be measured in our hope” because the scrapping of ex-gratia will require a referendum which will require “the entirety of Ghanaians will have to come together”.
Meanwhile, former President Mahama has bemoaned the large number of ministers under Akufo-Addo and promised to assemble a smaller number.
“I shall assemble and operate the leanest but most efficient government under our fourth republic. We will reduce, significantly, the size of the government. As I announced in my Ghana We Want address at UPSA late last year, I will form a government of less than sixty (60) ministers and deputy ministers of state,” Mr Mahama stated.
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