Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddy Blay, Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo and thirty-eight others who served as Members of Parliament under the Kufuor Administration, have sued the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Finance over pension cash owed them.
The forty (40) plaintiffs are demanding at least GHc 233,495 each as pension cash due them after their service to Ghana during the tenure of former President J.A. Kufour. The initial lump sum was said to be GHc 13,735 per plaintiff, but interest accumulated over time on the amount from January 2009 to February 2016 raises the amount to GHc 233,495.
The plaintiff’s claim is based on one of the recommendations by the Chinery-Hesse emolument Committee Report, which opined that anybody who exited Parliament, having served two full term periods and are above 50 years, should be paid some sums of money as pension benefits.
It was captured in their writ a letter dated June 25, 2015, where the Attorney General directed the Ministry of Finance to make the payments, but the Minister of Finance at the time refused, neglected or failed to make the payments as directed by the Attorney General.
According to former MPs, the conduct of the Finance Minister triggered much distress and suffering, as Majority of them are unemployed and unable to sustain their families and because of their age cannot find employment.
Below are the List of the former MPsÂ
1. David Apasera
2. Dr. Charles Brempong-Yeboah
3. Francis Aggrey Agbotese
4. Nii Adu Daku Mante
5. Kwame Adusa Okerchiri
6. Godfred Otchere
7. Moses Dani Baah
8. K. Brandford Adu
9. Victor Okuley Nortey
10. Yaw Barimah
11. Kwadwo Darko Adjei
12. Samuel Gyamfi Adu
13. Joseph Tsatsu Agbenu
14. Eugene Atta Agyapong
15. Abraham Osei Aidoo
16. Dr. Kwame Ampofo
17. Dr. Matthew Kwaku Antwi
18. Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku
19. Yaw Mensah Asiedu
20. Angela Baiden-Amissah
21. Kwamena Bartels
22. Freddie W.A. Blay
23. Sampson Boafo
24. Chrisitne Churcher
25. Kenneth Dzirasah
26. Isaac E. Edumadze
27. Nkrabea Effah Dartey
28. Kwame Owusu Frimpong
29. Kitson Akomeng Kissi
30. Joseph Henry Mensah
31. Mrs Anna Nyamakye
32. Albert Kwaku Obbin
33. Yaw Osafo-Maafo
34. Francis Mensah Osafo
35. Akwasi Osei AdjeiÂ
36. K. Owusu Adjapong
37. K. Opoku Adusei
38. Sam Quarm
39. Alex Sofo Seidu
40. Malik Yakubu AlhassanÂ
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