{"id":420325,"date":"2017-09-20T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/i-earned-ghs-500-as-deputy-minister-andrew-awuni\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:25:46","slug":"i-earned-ghs-500-as-deputy-minister-andrew-awuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/i-earned-ghs-500-as-deputy-minister-andrew-awuni\/","title":{"rendered":"I earned GHS 500 as Deputy Minister \u2013 Andrew Awuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/andrew-awuni_0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>The Founder of the Centre for Freedom and Accuracy,\u00a0Andrew Awuni<em>\u00a0 <\/em>says<em>\u00a0<\/em>government<em>\u00a0<\/em>must\u00a0ensure it does not succumb to the pressure of escalating\u00a0pay\u00a0packages of public servants.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Awuni who served as\u00a0a Deputy Minister of Information under the erstwhile Kufuor administration said he was saddened to realize the gargantuan difference in the remuneration and pecks of Ministers, and other public servants in current regimes compared to what he used to earn some 14 years ago as a Deputy Minister.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I was a Deputy Minister, my salary was GHS 500 in 2003. Fast forward 2017, and today I sometimes wonder whether it\u2019s the same position some of us went and occupied<\/em>,\u201d he told host Fiifi Banson on <em><strong>Anopa Kasapa<\/strong><\/em> on <em><strong>Kasapa 102.5 FM<\/strong><\/em> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>His comment comes on the back of government\u2019s resolve to cut back the salaries of Chief Executive Officers of public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Soon no CEO of any State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) will earn more than the President, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has hinted, saying a rationalisation process will be undertaken to cut salaries and allowances of CEOs whose remuneration is above that of the President.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a policy and governance forum on governance and strategic policy for the Civil Society Organisation sector, Mr Ofori-Atta said: <em>\u201cWe currently have a mirage of remuneration schedule that we don\u2019t quite understand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think we need to begin to rationalise it to make it clear where remuneration ends so that it does not go beyond the presidency,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, Mr. Andrew Awuni said inequality is a major contributing factor keeping millions of people across-board trapped in the poverty margin.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the rationalization of the CEOs\u2019 salary is long overdue, adding \u201c<em>we have to do something about the imbalances in terms of the distribution of our wealth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is the Boards that set the salary ranges for CEOs. So most of the time it is almost like you rub my back, I rub your back. Because if the Board needs something from the company the CEO\u2019ll grant it and if the CEO also wants something from the organization, the Board too will approve it. Most of these enterprises structure, power is brokered between management and the Board.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe salary ranges for CEOs here in our country is worrying. There is so much injustice, unfairness and imbalances; and I have observed in this country that all you need to do is to climb up to the 2% bracket of people who are managing this country, and you can get whatever you want. And in the process the gap is widening between the poor and the rich. People live in this country and they live like they\u2019re living in the most expensive places in the Switzerland and the rest. They can compare with anybody there. The poverty is too much, so if today we have realised the imbalances and that we can do something about it, we can do anything if we can be fair to each other, and do what I call redistribution of our wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI was saddened to hear a Minister of Finance claiming that the single spine is too high and ought to be reduced. The question I ask is that you\u2019re a Minister of finance and your driver may be earning a salary of GHS 500. How much do you want him to take home as salary to feed his family? Pay rent and other miscellaneous. You\u2019re claiming that 500 cedis is too much so it has to be reduced.\u00a0There is nothing wrong with single spine. What is worrying is that those at the top earns 1000\/2000 X more than those at the bottom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founder of the Centre for Freedom and Accuracy,\u00a0Andrew Awuni\u00a0 says\u00a0government\u00a0must\u00a0ensure it does not succumb to the pressure of escalating\u00a0pay\u00a0packages of public servants. Mr. Awuni who served as\u00a0a Deputy Minister of Information under the erstwhile Kufuor administration said he was saddened to realize the gargantuan difference in the remuneration and pecks of Ministers, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":412561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I earned GHS 500 as Deputy Minister \u2013 Andrew Awuni - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/i-earned-ghs-500-as-deputy-minister-andrew-awuni\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I earned GHS 500 as Deputy Minister \u2013 Andrew Awuni - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Founder of the Centre for Freedom and Accuracy,\u00a0Andrew Awuni\u00a0 says\u00a0government\u00a0must\u00a0ensure it does not succumb to the pressure of escalating\u00a0pay\u00a0packages of public servants. 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