Mills holds crisis meeting with MPs over pay rise

Prez. John E. A Mills

Ghana President John Evans Atta Mills has summoned the leadership of Parliament for a crisis meeting today to discuss new conditions of service for lawmakers. 

The meeting follows a publication in the Tuesday, February 14 edition ofThe Globe newspaper, which revealed plans by the legislators to boycott Thursday’s State of the Nation’s Address to be delivered by the President.

The MPs have been provoked into threatening what could be the first ever industrial action by lawmakers by what some have called the President’s lackadaisical attitude towards raising their pay. 

The President was said to have received recommendations as far back as last year to increase the pay levels of lawmakers. The recommendations were contained in a report submitted to him by the Prof. Ewurama Addy Committee which he set up a year earlier to review the conditions of service of Article 71 office holders. 

Details of the Committee’s recommendations have not been made public but the newspaper’s publication pointed to possible pay rise for MPs, whose take home pay is currently around a region of 3,000 Ghana Cedis. 

Ahead of the meeting with the President, the leadership of the House summoned MPs to an urgent closed-door meeting in an attempt to calm the nerves of agitated lawmakers.
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