According to Sam George, MPs in the country suffer a lot because their electorates think that they receive huge sums of money, as what is called “ex gratia”. He said the Public Affairs Directorate of Parliament House, led by Kate Addo, is failing to educate the masses on the issues of MPs and their ex gratia. “The fact that people think there is ex gratia for MPs is the failure on the Public Affairs Directorate of Parliament because there is no ex gratia,” he told the host of Starr Chat, Nana Aba Anamoah, on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. He explained that four years after he went to Parliament as the representative of Ningo-Prampram, he didn’t know his salary until the dissolution of the seventh parliament. The NDC MP said the electorates won’t understand that the so-called ex gratia is a delay in an MPs salary “yet I’ll get more insults because people think I get some free money”.

Source: GhanaWeb May 14, 2021 06:11 UTC