Should he be re-elected in the 2024 elections, former President John Dramani Mahama has pledged to end the practice of ex-gratia payments to executive members.
Mr. Mahama stated during the launch of his campaign on Thursday, March 2, in the Cedi Auditorium of the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho, Volta Region, that he would immediately begin taking the necessary steps to end the payment.Ex-gratia payments to executive members will no longer be made. In order to implement this, the necessary constitutional measures will begin in earnest in 2025. We will also convince members of other government branches to accept its removal.
Additionally, he pledged to address "issues pertaining to the exercise of powers of the president, proper separation of powers, strengthening of Parliament, restoring the independence of the judiciary, independent and quasi-state institutions and depoliticizing them" in order to reestablish confidence in state institutions.He added, "These will take the new administration by storm."The former president also lashed out at Akufo-Addo's administration for making the country's poverty levels worse.
"The NPP government's cluelessness and harrowing destruction of our progress has damaged and killed many bright dreams of the country,"This government has acted ignorantly and in many ways cruelly. Mr. Mahama addressed the jubilant audience at the Cedi Auditorium, "We are burdened with debt, we have been downgraded by every rating agency, and inflation has gone through the roof, sending people into abject poverty."
