{"id":1084556,"date":"2022-05-12T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/12\/jessica-opare-saforo-lydia-forson-not-happy-about-e-levy-deductions-on-their-ecg-prepaid-card-jessica-says-wtf\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T07:59:50","slug":"jessica-opare-saforo-lydia-forson-not-happy-about-e-levy-deductions-on-their-ecg-prepaid-card-jessica-says-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/12\/jessica-opare-saforo-lydia-forson-not-happy-about-e-levy-deductions-on-their-ecg-prepaid-card-jessica-says-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Opare Saforo, Lydia Forson not happy about e-Levy deductions on their ECG prepaid card, Jessica says &#8216;WTF!&#8217; \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-some-mainstream-female-ghanaian-celebs-have-stormed-twitter-to-register-their-utmost-disgust-about-the-electronic-transfer-levy-widely-known-as-e-levy-and-how-some-unlawfully-deductions-have-been-effected-on-their-prepaid-ecg-prepaid-card\">Some mainstream female Ghanaian celebs have stormed Twitter to register their utmost disgust about the Electronic Transfer Levy, widely known as e-levy and how some unlawfully deductions have been effected on their prepaid ECG prepaid card.<\/h2>\n<p>It was Lydia who began the conversation when she revealed how she was \u2018robbed\u2019 in broad day light after making a purchase with her card which hitherto had never happened before. <\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cBought electricity yesterday and went through the same, paid Gh 7 to the platform charge ( using the app) and GH 9 in Elevy. Then a deduction of GH 7 for the electrify I paid for. So GH 23 for getting light. It might not be anything to some, but ALOT to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Citi FM on air personality, Jessica Opare-Saforo quickly grabbed the thread with her furious hands and chipped in sentiments tailored along the same tangent. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Jessy said she could not believe she had to pay \u20b513.50 for a \u20b5500 transaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSent 500ghc using my bank app to someone this morning. I was\u00a0charged\u00a0Ghc 13.50 for the transaction. WTF! Hmmm,\u201d her tweet read.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Before the two women made this known, the Yaa Asantewaa of our time, Yvonne Nelson had mentioned that the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo \u201clured Ghanaians\u201d with \u201cbig English\u201d before he became President but has woefully failed to deliver on his gargantuan promises. <\/p>\n<p>The government of Ghana on May 1, rolled out the\u00a0E-Levy\u00a0policy which was passed in Parliament on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 despite the overwhelming opposition form Ghanaians. <\/p>\n<p>The government had insisted the implementation of the 1.5% value tax on all electronic transactions above \u20b5100 is to enhance domestic tax mobilization and expand the tax base as well as to provide an opportunity for everyone to contribute toward national development.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bought electricity yesterday and went through the same, paid Gh 7 to the platform charge ( using the app) and GH 9 in Elevy. <\/p>\n<p>Then a deduction of GH 7 for the electrify I paid for.<\/p>\n<p>So GH 23 for getting light. <\/p>\n<p>It might not be anything to some, but ALOT to me. https:\/\/t.co\/opyfkJlMO2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 miss forson (@lydiaforson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lydiaforson\/status\/1524329818292203521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Some mainstream female Ghanaian celebs have stormed Twitter to register their utmost disgust about the Electronic Transfer Levy, widely known as e-levy and how some unlawfully deductions have been effected on their prepaid ECG prepaid card. It was Lydia who began the conversation when she revealed how she was \u2018robbed\u2019 in broad day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[341,6866,6082,2099,4073,1908,11980,8110,4489,13126,11981,13127],"class_list":["post-1084556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-card","tag-deductions","tag-ecg","tag-elevy","tag-forson","tag-happy","tag-jessica","tag-lydia","tag-opare","tag-prepaid","tag-saforo","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}