Assembly men and women will be paid monthly salaries if I am elected as President – John Mahama

NDC Presidential flagbearer, John Mahama has said that if elected as the President of Ghana in 2020, Assembly members would be placed on a monthly salary.

As it stands, Assembly members do not receive a monthly salary but they only take allowance during assembly meetings and they are offered motorbikes as a means of transportation to enable them to do their work for the community in which they serve.

But Mahama is saying this would change once he’s given a nod as the President of Ghana. This new policy once implemented will see Assembly members and Unit Committee Members across the country are put on a monthly salary structure just like other public office holders like Members of Parliament for best developmental projects done and one Ghana course.

He said Assembly Members were “the bedrock of our local governance system”.

In a live Facebook session on Thursday, June 18, 2020, Mahama said his administration would train assembly members to coordinate the localized registration of all births and deaths.

He said, “For providing the service our intention is to pay Assembly Members so that they can earn an income to be able to look after themselves” adding that a policy “is going to be contained in our programme on governance…So this thing about having a new voter register and all that will be a thing of the past because we will get in real-time who has turned 18 and we can just transport them onto the electoral register.”