My $200 salary is insufficient - Bagbin

...but I took a $20,000 car loan Minority Leader, Alban S. K. Bagbin is crying for better conditions of service at a time when the country has been declared HIPC.

?Looking at the role I play in this august House and outside, I receive ?1,776,950 (=$220) a month which is nothing to write home about,? he said. The Ghanaian Chronicle says Mr Bagbin?s office has no supporting staff to carry out administrative duties except secretaries.

Mr. Bagbin also noted that he uses part of his peanut salary to run the office.

He therefore suggested that an annual budget should be allocated to his office since it is as key as other ministries in the country. According to the Minority Leader, since the NPP took over the affairs of the nation from the NDC, he has not been allocated an official residence and he still uses his private residence at Lashibi near Tema for official assignments.

This according to him, does not augur well for Ghana?s infant democracy. He also lamented that he has been allocated an amount of ?264,000 to engage the services of a driver and a house boy and wondered how he could engage the services of the these people and pay them well considering the high cost of living.