The Minority in Parliament has stated that it will not stand by while the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government takes the people of Ghana for granted.

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, the Ranking Member on the Health Committee of Parliament, Dr Nana Ayew Afriye, demanded the immediate payment of ten months’ salaries owed to over six thousand nurses by the state.

According to the Minority, although they have reasoned with the government in the past on health issues, they cannot watch as unpaid health workers are taken for granted.

“We cannot continue to be reasonable when you take the youth of this country for granted. The youth of this country matter, Ghanaians matter, nurses matter, and midwives also matter,” he stated.

The Caucus accused the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, of misleading the public by claiming that the government had secured financial clearance for the employment of the affected nurses and the payment of their arrears.

Disputing the minister’s claim, Dr Afriye affirmed that financial clearance for the recruitment of some 15,000 health professionals was secured under the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.

He noted that, despite the financial clearance expiring on December 31, 2024, some 7,000 health workers were engaged and received their salaries before the change of administration.

The remaining 6,000, he said, were later employed by the Ghana Health Service even though their clearance had expired.

The Member of Parliament for Effiduase-Asokore added that the current government, upon assuming office, failed to renew the financial clearance, a decision the Minority described as political.

“There is no need for Cabinet to approve anything again. There is no need. This is the clearance. Government should come and tell us there was no clearance, there was; it expired. And they should tell us, if indeed in public administration, there has not been a clearance which had expired and has been extended. It’s no news in this country or any other country.

"They lacked the will, and they were too political in their decision. So the government created the mess; they need to fix it and fix it now. They should pay them now because the money was allocated. They should pay them now,” he stated.





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