General News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018Source: kasapafmonline.comStop CID probe into double salary saga – Kwamena Ahwoi to Akufo-AddoExecutive Member, Centre for Democratic Transitions, Ghana, Prof Kwamena AhwoiAn Executive Member of the Centre for Democratic Transitions, Ghana, Professor Kwamena Ahwoi, has inveighed against investigations into the double salary saga by the Police, calling on the President to stop the CID from continuing the ongoing probe set into the matter. Prof Kwamena Ahwoi, also a leading member of the opposition NDC believes the issue is purely an employer-employee relationship, hence ought not to be criminalised. These problems, according to Prof Ahwoi, occurred in the past, even in former President John Agyekum Kufuor's administration and the late President John Evans Atta Mills was compelled to write to the then Speaker of Parliament on the issue. “Article 71 Office Holders found to have been overpaid or doubly paid should be made to refund the overpayment or double payment staggered over an agreed period of time.”Some NDC MPs who were Ministers and Deputy Ministers and Article 71 Office Holders in the erstwhile Mahama administration are currently being investigated for taking double salaries while in government. The Police CID initially invited 25 minority members who also served in the Executive in the erstwhile Mahama regime but later revoked 18 of the invitations citing some mistakes early on.

Source: GhanaWeb May 08, 2018 14:15 UTC