Coronavirus Fund: We’ll manage with half salaries for 3 months – Eugene Arhin

Director of Communications at the Presidency Eugene Arhin has revealed that presidential staffers and Deputy Ministers who have committed 50% of their salaries to the fight against the deadly Coronavirus will manage the remainder.

“We will cope, I believe at the end of the day we need to extort a greater course so whatever be the case. As I said nobody was forced to donate to this particular fund, we all did it voluntarily. We believe we just have to manage for the next three months to sail through once we did it voluntarily”, he revealed in response to how they will cope with half their salaries in an interview monitored by MyNewsGH.com.

All Ministers of State, the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, the Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Deputy Ministers, Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Cabinet, other Senior Presidential Staffers and Presidential Aides at the Presidency on Monday decided to cut out fifty percent (50%) of their salaries for April, May and June to be paid into the COVID-19 National Trust Fund, a fund established by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the fight against the Corona virus.

The fund is also meant to assist in the welfare of the needy and the vulnerable.

Reacting to fears that some people may use shortcuts to recoup the donated cash, Mr Eugene Arhin said “I can assure you and mark my words that nothing like that is going to happen.”