Drivers of Ghana’s MPS cry over meagre salary
Drivers of Members of Ghana’s Parliament are raising a red flag against the lawmakers for paltry salary structure and bad working conditions.
According to the drivers, the country’s lawmakers paying them as low as GH¢200 as their monthly salary. Even to pay our Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is a big problem.
According to them, treatment given to them by their bosses is uncalled for inhuman.
Speaking in an interview with OTEC news spokesperson for the Ghana MP drivers Association, Addison Obodai state that some of their members till date receive as low as GH€ 300 as monthly salary without any allowances.
He said have they been compelled to make the issue public because their salaries have not seen any improvement for almost ten years even though MPs have had several salary adjustments within the same period.
“In this day Ghana, collecting a salary of GH¢200.00, GH¢ 300.00 and GH¢ 400 a month is very bad. What are we going to do with that [money]? That is what we are saying. We are not fighting with them. We are begging them that they should increase the salaries for us,” he pleaded.
He said it sad that when MP’s do call for salary increment without considering that of their drivers.
Addison, however, noted that several avenues to echo their displeasure has been used but to no avail. He says the issue has been taken to the leadership of Parliament but all yielded no fruit.
‘’We have dependents and pay school fees as well as catering for the upkeep of my family. They have comprehensively insured their vehicles but they refused to take proper care of us,’’ he told Otecnews’ Evans Agyei Sikap.
Source: otecfmghana.com/ Evans Agyei Sikapa
