Former Akufo-Addo DCEs Who Are Now MPs Caught Stealing Through Double Salaries

Civil Society organization, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Administration (ASEPA) has revealed it has discovered that a group of former District Chief Executives in the first regime of the Akufo-Addo government has been receiving double salaries after they became MPs.

Documents accompanying the revelation on social media show that four MPs – Alhassan Abdallah Iddi, MP for Salaga North, -Alexander GYAN, MP for Kintampo South, and Stephen Pambiin Jallulah, MP for Pru West, have all been written to by the Controller and Accountant General to return various sums of money dishonestly in unearned salaries.

The fourth is Sylvester Tetteh a former CEO of the National Youth Authority and current MP for Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfro Constituency, in the Greater Accra Region.

Stephen Pambiin Jallulah fraudulently received unearned salaries as a ghost DCE to the tune of the tune of Ghc119,004; Alexander Gyan to the tune of Ghc119,004.45 and Sylvester Mathew Tetteh – to the tune of Ghc131,530.42 according to the documents seen.

In a letter from Alhassan Abdallah to the Controller and Accountant General, seen by WhatsUp News, Alhassan Abdallah confirms he receives the double salary by reporting that he has refunded Ghc42,900 of the amount involved.

“ASEPA in painstaking investigations has discovered how some DCEs and CEOs in the Akufo-Addo administration who later became MPs in Akufo-Addo’s second term were receiving double salaries; still receiving their salaries as DCEs even though they were NOT DCEs anymore and as MPs,” ASEPA wrote

It added that it has also seen documents showing that Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, “received double salary as MP and a minister without portfolio in the Kufuor administration.”

The revelation is coming in the wake of the Supreme Court directing that Minority MPs, including Minority Leader, who some time ago received double salaries, should have court processes that they are allegedly evading, served on them at Parliament House.

The apex court directed that the MPs should be served by way of substituted service after swerving service of the writ of summons issued against them.

Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, also known as Abronye DC, filed a suit against the former ministers including Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu, challenging the payment of their salaries to them between 2009 and 2016 when they doubled as MPs and ministers or deputy ministers.

The court gave the order after the lawyer for Abronye DC, Seth Gyapong Oware, informed the court that the affected MPs and former government appointees are evading service of court processes.

Subsequently, the court directed that the processes should be posted on the notice boards of Parliament, Supreme Court and the Law Court Complex.

It also directed further publication in the Daily Graphic and Daily Guide newspapers within 14 days.