'Which other country in the world pays salaries to retirees?' - Prof Prempeh fumes

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  • NPP SET A BAD PRECEDENCE BY PAYING GOVERNMENT APPOINTEES ABSURD FIGURES AS SALARIES 2 days ago

    NPP was paying its appointed criminals absurd figures as salaries so wont Ghana be broke

  • IT IS RIDICULOUS THAT THIEVING JUDGES AND CORRUPT POLICE GURUS AND MADE TO REITIRE ON THEIR SALARIES 2 days ago

    It is simply unbelievable that criminal judges and corrupt policemen retire on their Salaries yet Teachers retire completely broke with disappointing pension

  • Game Changer +447935009178 2 days ago

    The sheer inequality this country has seen is legendary to say the least. The Ghanaian public sector salary structure is the most ridiculous in this world. The so called managers and directors are paid very high with a litany ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 1 day ago

    That clearly is a high-jacking of the nation by a few privileged government officials. It's for this reason that the salaries, perks and retirement packages of this entitled usually are not made public until a scandal arises. ...
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  • Kwaku 1 day ago

    Those benefits were put in place by the same people enjoying those benefits.
    When they die, state burial because they served the country. I keep asking that those of us who are doing the digging, who are we serving?
    Now ...
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  • Paparazzi- Until Dying Day 2 days ago

    Professor Okukuseku! Seeking to rock the boat? Lest you forget the agony of protesting pensioners. During days not long ago, when ken ofori-attah the Diawo, strangulated old & weak daddys and mummys to choke-hold. Watch it o ...
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  • Saddist Killer-1. Fumes for What? 2 days ago

    Why not initiate 'Assisted Dying Bill' instead? For Ritirees' use? When utility bills alone consume a hugely collosal portion of their pay?

  • Atta Kay 2 days ago

    Ghanaians by nature are not truthful. We better learn how to pay workers well while they are in active service ,they can decide how much to save for their pension.Bcoz of greed & selfishness others find ways to live well even ...
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  • PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS WERE MUTE ON THIS BECAUSE IT IS POLITICALLY INCORRECT 2 days ago

    Previous government fear losing votes if they dare scrap it. It also benefits the elite, at the expense of the suffering masses. Shame on them. How can the country progress if truth cannot be told to power? Well done Ato Fors ...
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  • Kwettey 1 day ago

    .... and they should scrap it quickly. It is things like this that make us look so backward and the substance of our education so doubtful. They incompetently supervise and greedily maintain the national economy at Third worl ...
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  • Baafour 2 days ago

    If you don't understand the issues been discussed, shut up your proboscis. This is not npp, military, police politicians, presidents, judges and all article 71 are beneficiary of this.

  • A$$ Hole Property Owning Democracy Crooks 2 days ago

    Donkey Professor! Seeking to ignite flames, abi? Ghana is better off, without garbage donkeys like you. Because of idoits like you why people ponder whether Ghana is worth dying for. Comot there with your Busia-Akufo-Addo ...
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  • A Case of: "By and By" MacroEconomics 2 days ago

    Baby pig, wey he ask his mother sey: Mother, Why is your mouth so very big? And the mother looked him in the face, and said: 'By and By, You Go Grow'

  • sotrue 1 day ago

    abolish payment of salaries on retirement. every staff should be on SSNIT Pension

  • Kantow 2 days ago

    From the presidency to the cleaner, everybody must be put on single spine and SSNIT. No more article 71 and cap 30. A colonial legacy, which has killed us since time immemorial...

  • Kwaku Tee 2 days ago

    The way we live in this country, if we shd have some astronauts going to the moon like the Russians & Americans they will demand Spare Keys to BoG save rooms. They can visit there to cash monies whenever they want. It's like ...
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  • New Leaf 2 days ago

    So all the Finance Ministers didn't know the practice of paying retirees is the cause of our problems? In addition, the organized labour is also quiet about it until the president is suggesting changes? Everybody must be on S ...
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  • ADEDEJI OGUNTAYO AKUSIKA 2 days ago

    GHANA IS NOT AMERICA WHERE LIVING WAGES ARE PAID WHILE YOU ARE WORE WORKING.IN GHANA, SOME PALTRY WAGES ARE PAID TO GOVERNMENT WORKERS SO IT IS JUSTIFIED THAT THEY CONTINUE TO RECEIVE WAGES WHILE THEY ARE ON PENSION. PERIOD. ...
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  • Ruthan 2 days ago

    It's never wrong for poor countries to copy good standards from advanced countries. People in the Soviet Union were poorly paid bcoz of the Commmunist regime.Russia after the collapse of USSR quickly realised this and quickly ...
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  • Kofi 2 days ago

    God bless you, my good friend. It's so ridiculous. Which country does that?

  • BAYA 2 days ago

    FOOLISH MAN

  • Jay Swiss 2 days ago

    Banana Republic of Ghana! How can you take loans on behalf of the people of Ghana to pay salaries of public employees and servants? No to NPP, No to NDC in 2028!! We need a change in our governance.

  • Osei 2 days ago

    That nonsense must stop. They must get pension money and not salaries with other benefits like some do.

    It really doesn't make any sense.
    Asiedu Nketia the joker, says government employ the.number of people they can pay, ...
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  • KWAO LAWYER 2 days ago

    We need to stop it. There must be the same pension scheme for all government workers. This was the reason why we passed the Pensions Law, b ut our Politicians are afraid to enforce it.

  • UNP 2 days ago

    Under Article 71 of the 1992 Constitution, the following categories of officeholders are entitled to pensions or salary continuation after leaving office:

    Executive
    - President of the Republic of Ghana
    - Vice President ...
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  • Kojo 2 days ago

    The idea of article 71 and ex-gratia are the main cause, but the picture is always painted as if it is the civil service salary that is the source.

  • GOLDEN 2 days ago

    TIME TO ENFORCE TRANSPARENCY AND STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY,PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!
    THEY HAVE BETTER SYSTEMS IN THE ADVANCED COUNTRIES,THEY ALLOCATE OR HAVE PENSION RULES,FOR EVERYBODY WORKING,AND GETTING SALARIES,WHEN PEOPLE GO TO PEN ...
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  • A Case of: "By and By" MacroEconomics 2 days ago

    Spot on, Golden Boy. Period

  • Sycamore 2 days ago

    In the irredeemably corrupt and backwards Ghana Armed Forces, colonels and above retires on their salaries meaning if they were earning let's say ghc20,000 in active service, they go on retirement still earning ghc20,000 doin ...
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  • Whaaaat? 2 days ago

    @Sycamore. You call the Ghana Armed Forces 'irredeemably corrupt and backward'?? Is your "upstairs' whirling small?

  • A Case of: "By and by" MacroEconomics 2 days ago

    Provost Marshall/SIB, very crucial you close in, on this Sycamore(lm)poster ASAP.

  • Satellites Must Shoot 2 days ago

    @Sycamore. Yours is a very serious indictment! Which mustn't be water, just to pass under bridge, un-harvested

  • David 2 days ago

    Every African must watch the YouTube channel called "Bantucitydiaries" to understand how we are in Africa. The YouTuber just dropped an interesting piece yesterday entitled :" Africa : Incompetence Masks as Corruption". Certa ...
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  • Night darkness 2 days ago

    Look at his stupid face like gorilla anus. Gyimigyimi buluuuuu

  • Old Amoxicillin 2 days ago

    Today, Professor this; tomorrow Professor that. Next day, Doctor this; the day after, double Doctor-Doctor Emeritus that! All just big talk, but no substance. Expired drugs nkoaaaah!

  • Irreversible Gas-Prof Henry Kwasi Prempeh fumes. Oyiwa ! 1 day ago

    A saying goes, that: "It is better to keep your mouth shut and thought a Fool, than to open your mouth and leave all Doubts".

  • Irreversible Gas-Prof Henry Kwasi Prempeh fumes. Oyiwa ! 1 day ago

    *Correction*:-It is better you keep your mouth shut and thought a Fool, than open your mouth and clear all Doubts.

  • Jakoto Professor 2 days ago

    Which mole professor is this? In the jakoto of Mahama?

  • Jakoto Professor 2 days ago

    The Jakoto professor who fumed without first, checking his breath

  • say it loud 2 days ago

    Our current public sector salary structure is a scam. We're looking up to JM to correct this abnormality

  • Gasco 2 days ago

    The stealing of taxpayers money by corrupt politicians, head of public institutions, the public worker, name them are more than than the total revenue you are talking about. Deal with the corruption, and we will have excess s ...
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  • Lest We Forget 2 days ago

    Let somebody with chalk in hand, sit down this Professor. Buttocks on classroom chair, facing blackboard. To teach him in strategic detail. The history of how retirees stimulated Ghana's Independence at Christianborg X-Roads ...
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  • Rock the Boat 2 days ago

    Is this the type of stuff? With short circuit Book Professor Purview-AI? In the Captains' Bridge? To drive this vital legitimate debate yet, delicate and Sensitive Ship to Shore?

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  • Neutralman 2 days ago

    If government is borrowing money to pay salaries why the directive by the President to recruit 10000 people into the security services in addition to 2000 others into the military. Do we need that huge number or just job for ...
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  • Kwabena 2 days ago

    @Neutralman. Good submission. I can not agree with you more. Well said!!!

  • Jimbo 2 days ago

    Is this man satisfied with the peanut paid to public workers as salary? Of you want retirement monthly pension to be abolished, speak to government to pay realistic wages to public workers. Is Kwesi Prempeh happy with salarie ...
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  • Otuvass 2 days ago

    The finance minister should tell us the wage bill segregation….how much of this 44% goes to article 71 holders…the chunk of this money is spent on the Executive, Legislative and the Judiciary…ordinary workers receive pe ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 1 day ago

    Only in one country, a country called Cluelessia.

  • Cici 1 day ago

    How can someone retire and be receiving the same salary every month? Its ridiculous. Now see why we have to borrow to even construct our roads and having hospitals not even fit for vetinary services in some countries. We need ...
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  • BerylRichards 1 day ago

    Get your tax collection done right!!

    About 30% of our economy is informal. Tighten that loop. Check out property taxes!! even on the formal economy make enforcement as priority.

    All the 3 things up there are no rocket s ...
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  • Jkm 1 day ago

    This is nonsense, the stop deducting us ssnit and lets do our own pension savings and see if we will not accrue more interest than ssnit does

  • Samy 1 day ago

    Gold board ceo 125000 ghc for every 30 days now Ato Forson this why your efforts isn’t going anywhere
    All all article 71 full salary and still collecting social security pension . What are we doing .still no hospital ...
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  • Samy 1 day ago

    Gold board ceo 125000 ghc for every 30 days now Ato Forson this why your efforts isn’t going anywhere
    All all article 71 full salary and still collecting social security pension . What are we doing .still no hospital ...
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  • Roadrunner 1 day ago

    No one does,it's just greed.its the retirees responsibility to put in place their needs for ,and after retirement.
    In most cases their would be pension,providing they have the pension age.After that there is in some countrie ...
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  • Roadrunner 1 day ago

    IF THIS IS CORRECT,THEN THE SYSTEM NEEDS A COMPLETE OVERHAUL.. THAT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN IN A CIVILIZED WORLD..IT DOESN'T STACK UP.

  • Kulinoli Dinviela 1 day ago

    Talking about the ballooning wage bill, why are you guys silent on the astronomical increases in the salaries of MMDCEs and the number of party apparatchiks who have found themselves on the wage bill as special aides, adviso ...
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  • Kwame 1 day ago

    Its a fact that the majority of countries around the world are members of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
    They therefore have the obligation to pay some lump sum and monthly payment to their workers who are on ...
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  • kulbogo 1 day ago

    This stupid man who claimed to be a lawyer but lack wisdom. he must come up to south Africa, every citizen who attain the age of 60yrs has monthly stipend to live on with. a fool will always be a fool.

  • Musa 1 day ago

    It’s bcos we have stupid leaders and slave minded population who are always engulfed in partisan politics

  • TonyB 1 day ago

    People should be put on pension pay and not retire on their salaries, period