President John Mahama announced an increase of the daily allowance for peacekeepers by a dollar at a durbar at the Burma camp in Accra on Thursday.
Every Ghanaian peacekeeper on a United Nations (UN) mission is expected to benefit from the increase, and President Mahama expressed hope the increment would boost morale in the armed forces.
[contextly_sidebar id=”1T0JEDge7gt3SIyg6cfIc2T05wh69J2y”]At the event, the President indicated that government has over the years provided the needed resources for the retooling of the Ghana Armed Forces.
He acknowledged that their “major concern as far as external peace keeping duties have to do a lot with the prompt payment of allowances and also the quantity of allowances.”
The peacekeeping allowance from government had not seen any increment since 2009, in the first year of the late President John Atta Mills’ tenure.
But this US$1 increment brings to US$31 the allowance paid to peace keepers on daily basis.
“Together with the armed forces council and the high command, we have decided to increase by one dollar a day the rate that is paid to peace keeping soldiers who go out,” President Mahama said.
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana