{"id":83469,"date":"2015-01-19T05:33:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T05:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=83469"},"modified":"2015-01-19T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T11:06:53","slug":"pay-getfund-debts-now-pressure-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=83469","title":{"rendered":"Pay GETFUND debts now – Pressure group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressure group, the Progressive Nationalist Forum (PNF) has charged\u00a0the government to pay off its debt to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND), which it says amounts to over GH\u00a2 300 million.<\/p>\n

According to the group, the amount of debt accrued is as a result of the government\u2019s refusal to release funds owed GETFUND for over a year.<\/p>\n

An Accra Fast Track High Court in July 2014, ordered the Finance Ministry to immediately pay all outstanding arrears<\/strong><\/span><\/a> owed\u00a0GETFund.<\/p>\n

The court, presided over by Justice LL Mensah found the Finance Ministry\u2019s failure to pay statutory funds into the GETFund \u00a0illegal, after a suit was filed against the Ministry at the court by Richard Nyamah, the convener of PNF.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”WD9W1LzWDhzfDkd4saD6tWbd1Uocj20Z”]Mr. Nyamah had alleged that the government had failed to make any payments into the Fund between\u00a0June 2013 and\u00a0July 2014.<\/p>\n

He had threatened to seek a order to freeze the accounts of the government<\/strong><\/span><\/a> if it\u00a0failed to pay the arrears owed the FUND in full.<\/p>\n

However, six months since the court’s ruling, the group are \u00a0accusing the government of not\u00a0showing any commitment towards \u00a0fulfilling the court’s orders.<\/p>\n

Richard Nyamah in an \u00a0interview\u00a0\u00a0with\u00a0Citi News <\/strong>said:\u201cCurrently, government is indebted to GETFUND of an amount of not less than GH\u00a2 325 million. There have been no serious attempts on the part of the government to really pay off the monies.\u201d It is obviously a breach, the ruling was specific, pay all that you are indebted to the GETFUND and ensure that you go by the law that states that within 30 days of receipt of all the VAT invoices,\u00a0 two and a half percent is paid to GETFUND,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\"Seth
Finance Minister: Seth Terkper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The PNF believes that the debt owed by the government has\u00a0halted the GETFund\u2019s infrastructural development plans and other projects it intended to embark on.<\/p>\n

The GETFund is a public trust set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 with the core mandate of providing funding to supplement government effort in the provision of infrastructure and facilities within the public sector from the pre-tertiary to tertiary level.<\/p>\n

It also provides funding to support the procurement of education equipment and promotion of staff development and research especially at the tertiary level.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
\nFollow @EdKwakofi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pressure group, the Progressive Nationalist Forum (PNF) has charged\u00a0the government to pay off its debt to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND), which it says amounts to over GH\u00a2 300 million. According to the group, the amount of debt accrued is as a result of the government\u2019s refusal to release funds owed GETFUND for over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-83469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-shooting","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}