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March 12, 2025
An amount of GHs 100 million has been allocated for the payment of monthly allowance to all Assembly Members, Minister for Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has disclosed.
The Minister disclosed this when he presented the 2025 Budget statement on the floor of Parliament, Tuesday.
“Mr. Speaker, an amount of GHs 100 million has been allocated for the payment of monthly allowance to all Assembly Members”, the Minister noted.
According to the government, payment of allowances to various Assembly members (both elected and appointed) was necessitated at inspiring them to deliver on their mandate.
President John Mahama, in his first state of the nation address on the floor of Parliament in February this year, bemoaned the neglect and inadequate compensation Assembly members face even though they play a key role in Ghana’s decentralization system.
He therefore promised to provide them with adequate resources in order to enable carry out their mandates efficiently and effectively.
Meanwhile, the government has also released an amount of GHs 7.51 billion to the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
According to the Minister for Finance, the government in accordance with our decentralization policy objective has suggested to Parliament to ensure that a minimum of 80% of the funds are transferred directly to the District Assemblies to spur economic growth at the district level in order to deepen decentralization.
He added that this is a sharp contrast to what has happened to the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) in recent years where less than 50 percent of the released amount to DACF goes to the District Assemblies.
Emmanuel Frimpong/Ghanamps.com