{"id":278948,"date":"2016-12-23T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278948"},"modified":"2016-12-23T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:11:10","slug":"reject-your-ex-gratia-if-sampson-ahi-dares-npp-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/reject-your-ex-gratia-if-sampson-ahi-dares-npp-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Reject your ex-gratia if… – Sampson Ahi dares NPP MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"
A member of Ghana\u2019s Parliament on the ticket of the outgoing National Democratic Congress has challenged members of the New Patriotic Party in Parliament to reject their end of service benefits if they think President Mahama should not be passing last minute agreements.<\/p>\n
The NPP have expressed concerns about President Mahama\u2019s approval of fresh contracts and appointments<\/strong><\/a><\/span> despite having less than a month to vacate office and hand over power to president-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo in January 2017.<\/p>\n Though the NDC have argued that there is nothing wrong with such actions, the NPP think otherwise.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”75TJsHTVaECMiqWUFqKOUSKrV1QFE0xN”]Parliament is currently deliberating on end of service benefits, salaries and emoluments of Article 71 office holders which includes the president.<\/p>\n Per Ghana\u2019s laws, Parliament and the Executive have the mandate to review each other\u2019s ex-gratia.<\/p>\n Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Thursday, Sampson Ahi who is the MP for the Bodi constituency dared the NPP MPs to turn down their ex-gratia if it\u2019s finally approved.<\/p>\n \u201cIf they are arguing that we are doing last minute loans or programmes what do they say to the fact that we are now working on approving our ex-gratia. The ex-gratia of parliamentarians must be approved by the executive and Parliament will also approve that of the executive. As we speak we haven\u2019t done it. So why are they not saying that because there is a new government we shouldn\u2019t allow the outgoing president to approve the ex-gratia for the parliamentarians?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhy are we behaving as if, if NDC does anything, it is criminal but the NPP will do it and nobody can say anything about it,\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll boycott last minute agreements<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Ahi’s remark comes on the back of the Minority’s notice of a possible boycott<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to avoid approving government’s last minute agreements which they claimed were being pushed to parliament illegally.<\/p>\n