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After waiting three years for their end-of-service benefits, a group of former Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) have given the government an ultimatum.
In the wake of President Akufo-Addo’s 2021 reshuffle, 134 MMDCEs were removed of their jobs. The group maintains that their appointment letters promised them a severance package that included an installation grant and a three-month consolidated salary.
Leo-Nelson Adzidogah, the angry former MCE for Akatsi South, addressed on behalf of the unhappy former MMDCEs and expressed the group’s collective frustration, claiming that the unpaid amounts surpass GH₵100,000 per person.
“We are going to take 3 years but that one is because we left office in 2021 October, so it will not fully be three months. Then the installation grant also, will not be fully paid.
“… I believe in addition to the arrears, we will take a little over 100,000 cedis. Then they will take taxes. That is why I am saying I cannot give accurate figures on hand. But if you put them together, it will be over 100,000,” he is quoted in a report by www.myjoyonline.com.
He emphasized that the government has not responded to their complaints in spite of their numerous petitions.
Adzidogah cautions that as the former MMDCEs lack the financial means to fully participate in the campaign, the delay in allocating these money could have disastrous effects on the campaign activities of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He conveyed the opinion that many former MMDCEs are unlikely to back the 2024 campaign if their debts are not paid.
“I see that most of the former MMDCES who have been relieved of their posts are aggrieved and bitter. The only thing for us is to take our money so they bring us back to the mainstream.
“That is what I am crying for. But I know without this, most of us are not going to support the campaign. But what we want is that when we go to places we are not going to depend on them for fuel to move our cars. Give this to us so that we can also follow the campaign team wherever they go, so we can also contribute to the campaign effort. That is what we want.
“Maybe any DCE who wants to go will say I am now going to disgrace myself because when I go there, I don’t have money for fuel, so I have to depend on this.
“That discretion will force most of them to sit back. That is why I am saying that let this be paid to us so that we can join this campaign. This is our argument,” he stated.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
