The Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, has hinted that Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Rev Amishaddai Owusu-Amoah will face legal consequences for his continued stay in office without a contract extension from the Ministry of Finance.
Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah , who is more than 60 years old and is therefore required by law to have a contract authorising him to continue as GRA boss, has been at post for about two years with any such authorisation from the appointing authority.
For Mr Dafeamekpor, Rev Owusu-Amoah is not supposed to be at post because he has no document backing his being at post, adding that Rev Owusu-Amoah will face legal action.
“The collusion and the cronyism and politics is what is eating our system away. For this matter if it is not politics, which country will this happen? And he too, it doesn’t bother him to prompt that you must regularize my stay?… People [like Rev Owusu-Amoah] don’t care any longer but a day is coming that they will care,” Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor said in an interview with Okay FM.
Mr Dafeamekpor explained that the fact that without a contract, Rev Owusu-Amoah is still working and drawing salary is a violation that has been cited countless times by the Auditor General.
At a sitting of the Public Accounts Committee recently, Rev Owusu-Amoah confirmed that he was beyond 60 years old and had been asked by the Finance Minister to stay on with a written contract.
In the view of Mr Dafeamekpor, the government (Finance Ministry and the Presidency) should have taken immediate steps after the Public Accounts Committee hearing to regularize Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah’s stay at the GRA. But that has not been done.
The Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, has hinted that Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Rev. Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah will face legal consequences for his continued stay in office without a contract extension from the Ministry of Finance.
Rev Amishaddai Owusu-Amoah, who is more than 60 years old and is therefore required by law to have a contract authorising him to continue as GRA boss, has been at post for about two years with any such authorisation from the appointing authority.
For Mr Dafeamekpor, Rev Owusu-Amoah is not supposed to be at post because he has no document backing his being at post, adding that Rev Owusu-Amoah will face legal action.
“The collusion and the cronyism and politics is what is eating our system away. For this matter if it is not politics, which country will this happen? And he too, it doesn’t bother him to prompt that you must regularize my stay?… People [like Rev Owusu-Amoah] don’t care any longer but a day is coming that they will care,” Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor said in an interview with Okay FM.
Mr Dafeamekpor explained that the fact that without a contract, Rev Owusu-Amoah is still working and drawing salary is a violation that has been cited countless times by the Auditor General.
At a sitting of the Public Accounts Committee recently, Rev Owusu-Amoah confirmed that he was beyond 60 years old and had been asked by the Finance Minister to stay on with a written contract.
In the view of Mr Dafeamekpor, the government (Finance Ministry and the Presidency) should have taken immediate steps after the Public Accounts Committee hearing to regularize Rev Owusu-Amoah’s stay at the GRA. But that has not been done.
Meanwhile, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, a political analyst, has accused President Akufo-Addo of forcing Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu to step down from his role as the leader of the Majority Caucus in Parliament.
Expressing his concerns during an interview with Accra-based Radio Gold, Dr. Amoako Baah asserted that the sole authority capable of removing the former Majority Leader is the president, leaving no room to disavow any involvement in Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s resignation.
The abrupt resignation occurred after a pivotal meeting between Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and some leadership figures of the NPP at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. Dr. Amoako Baah further questioned the legal foundation for the president’s actions.
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“If he has been forced to resign, then the president forced him to resign from the position of Minister of Parliamentary Affairs because that is the only position he can be forced to resign from. You cannot force him to resign as Majority Leader.
“So if anybody forced him to resign, it must be the president. Nobody else has that power except the president and so he cannot deny that he forced him to resign.
“I am not blaming the president, he is the one who did it because he is the one with that power. If you have the power and you exercise it, it is not blame and the person has no choice because he has appointment powers and removal powers and he has exercised one.”
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu was appointed chairman of the NPP’s manifesto committee after his resignation and Alexander Afenyo-Markin was subsequently announced as Majority Leader.
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