{"id":9662,"date":"2022-12-16T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/2022\/12\/16\/govt-withholds-16-months-salary-of-special-prosecutor-minority-raises-alarm\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:44:19","slug":"govt-withholds-16-months-salary-of-special-prosecutor-minority-raises-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=9662","title":{"rendered":"Govt withholds 16 months Salary of Special Prosecutor- Minority Raises alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Minority caucus in parliament has raised alarm over government deliberate refusal to pay the salaries of the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Adjebeng for over 16 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minority in Parliament has bared teeth at government over the poor treatment of the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, the Special Prosecutor has not been paid for 16 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While fuming at the committee on constitutional, legal, and parliamentary affairs today, the Minority Leader questioned how the government expects the Special Prosecutor\u2019s office to fight corruption when he is not being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOffice of the Special Prosecutor, you put that young man there, you haven\u2019t determined his conditions of service, he hasn\u2019t been paid, some appointments have been done which themselves raises questions whether a board was aware or not aware, Chairman you have to probe further the happenings at the Office of the Special Prosecutor. He hasn\u2019t been paid for 16 months and you\u2019re coming to lay what report? We won\u2019t accept any report being laid here,\u201d Haruna Iddrisu stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1671176032283.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9661\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Kissi Adjebeng<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minority Leader added, \u201cYour commitment to fight corruption begins with your attitude to independent constitutional bodies like the Special Prosecutor who has been denied salary. Can any of you live without salary? And you don\u2019t pay him and you expect him to work and combat corruption and you want to lay a report. Nobody will lay a report in respect of the Judiciary here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to the issues, the chairman of the committee on constitutional, legal, and parliamentary affairs Kwame Anyimadu Antwi disclosed that engagements have been made with the Ministry of Finance to sort out all monetary issues to well-resource the Office of the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: expressnewsghana.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority caucus in parliament has raised alarm over government deliberate refusal to pay the salaries of the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Adjebeng for over 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2378],"class_list":["post-9662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parliamentary","tag-minority-special-prosecutor-salary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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