{"id":1142540,"date":"2022-07-05T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/no-wonder-we-are-here-today-check-the-amounts-of-ex-gratia-payment-to-ministers-for-2017-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:38:00","slug":"no-wonder-we-are-here-today-check-the-amounts-of-ex-gratia-payment-to-ministers-for-2017-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/no-wonder-we-are-here-today-check-the-amounts-of-ex-gratia-payment-to-ministers-for-2017-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"No wonder we are here today, check the amounts of Ex-gratia payment to Ministers for 2017-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bd64ef13f93e4b18ae34c8eac06e4e85\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When this government runs to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout, it should not surprise you because the finances of this country has gone into the payment of Ex-gratia.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder we are where we are today, the IMF, seeking for a bailout on our economy because the amount of which was paid out as ex gratia to the president and ministers in the period 2017-2021 is unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo received GHS 659, 392.00 as Ex-gratia payment. His Vice, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia received GHS 549, 492.00.<\/p>\n<p>One may ask what an Ex-gratia payment is?<\/p>\n<p>An ex gratia payment is an amount of money that you would receive by your employer as a termination payment when you have left your employment. Such a payment is over and above what you are entitled to be paid under your contract of employment, so for example, it would not include your notice or holiday pay.<\/p>\n<p>An ex gratia payment therefore usually represents a \u201cgood will\u201d sum without any obligation by your employer to pay this.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Cabinet Minister-MP and Cabinet Minister-non MP received GHS 464, 032.00 and GHS 457, 928.00 as Ex-gratia respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It will interest you to know the rest of ex gratia payment received by the others and after seeing them you will understand why Ghana has run to the IMF.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/34b1f8665a7d4624b88a746b06b30d93\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Lawrinda (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nEx-gratia<br \/>\nIMF<br \/>\nInternational Monetary Fund<br \/>\nNana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<br \/>\nRepublic<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When this government runs to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout, it should not surprise you because the finances of this country has gone into the payment of Ex-gratia. No wonder we are where we are today, the IMF, seeking for a bailout on our economy because the amount of which was paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11286,418,16028,1477,1600,285],"class_list":["post-1142540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-amounts","tag-check","tag-exgratia","tag-ministers","tag-payment","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142540","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=1142540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}