Information available to Citi News indicates Members of Parliament are set to recommend that their salaries be pegged at Gh¢7,000 per month.
Citi News sources within Parliament say members of a committee set up by the House to review the salaries and conditions of service of the nation’s law makers, for which the services of a consultant has been engaged, initially considered a salary band of between Gh¢ 5,000 and Gh¢8,000, but settled on the compromise figure of Gh¢7,000.
The MPs currently receive a salary of about Gh¢2,500 a month. They last had a pay rise in October 2010, when their salaries were increased by 17%.
However, speaking on the issue on the Citi Eyewitness News on Friday January 21, the founder and leader of the United Renaissance Party (URP) said the amount of work done by Parliamentarians does not merit a monthly salary of GHc7, 000.
According to Kofi Wayo such monies should be channelled into the development of the nation rather than wasting it on parliamentarians who do not deserve it.
"The question is this, what do the MPs do anyway, what about the workers of Ghana, have you thought about their raise, the workers of Ghana who pay the taxes, the market women, the farmers, the taxi driver who pays over 16 taxes a day...for the kind of work they (MPs) do I would not support a pay rise for them...they don’t deserve it in anyway".
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