He explained that, “The arrangement is that we should pay them as cabinet Ministers - the equivalent of cabinet Ministers' salary - that hasn't happened before. Also, the arrangement indicates that we should give them backpay from 2017; if we pay them already, why must we give them a backpay from 2017? Speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrooko, Kwesi Pratt said that if there is already an arrangement to pay some monies to them, there is no justification to pay them any back pay. Kweku Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, stressed that this arrangement will be illegal, since the wives of the presidential officials are not constitutionally part of the Article 71 holders. "More importantly, what we're saying is that those salaries, monthly salaries equivalent to the salaries of cabinet Ministers is totally illegal.

Source: GhanaWeb July 13, 2021 19:07 UTC