Exposed: Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, other MPs took double salary under Kufuor

The current Majority Leader of the Parliament of Ghana, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and some four other Members of Parliament who doubled as Ministers under the former President John Agyekum Kufuor administration have been accused of taken double salaries.

According to the Auditor General’s Report released by Investigative Journalist, Kevin Taylor on his With All Due Respect progamme yesterday on Loud Silence Radio and TV, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the then Minister of State took the highest amount of Gh20,848.00 of over payment of his salary.

Other Ministers who took the double salary include Mr. Christopher Addae, former Deputy Minister, GHc17,936.00; Mr. Samuel Kweku Obodai, former Deputy Minister, GHc17,936.00; Mr. Ernest Debrah – a former Cabinet Minister, GHc19,424.00 and Kofi Osei Ameyaw – a Deputy Minister with GHc17,936.00;

Mr. Taylor said the five former Ministers were required by the Auditor General’s Report to refund various amounts they were over paid but failed to do so.

He also revealed the list of about 130 MPs who were over paid in the former President Kufuor’s reign and he is daring the Majority Leader to come and deny the facts on the faces of the documents below:

Source: loudsilenceradio.com