Speaking on Joy News on Saturday, July 17, as monitored by GhanaWeb, Kofi Bentil noted that Article 71 in its current state poses a threat to the country’s democratic development. “Article 71 is obscene, and it is one of the threats to this democracy, and everybody agrees that it is wrong. I think there is a solution to it and that is all those Article 71 [office holders] can get multiple times the minimum wage. Earlier on in the same news programme, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, an MP and former deputy minister intimated why it will serve the country’s interest to do an overhaul of Article 71. “I have long held the view that the entire Article 71 emoluments regime is in urgent need of a major overhaul.

Source: GhanaWeb July 18, 2021 06:22 UTC