On JoyNews’ Newsfile on April 23, host, Samson Lardy Anyenini, revealed a number of allowances leaders of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are enjoying aside their huge salaries.
The allowances include; entertainment allowance of ¢1500 a month, home enhancement loan of about ¢2000, travel per diem of $1500, allowance for a replacement for eye lenses at ¢1000 yearly and inconvenience allowance of GH¢500 per day.
This revelation has sparked a conversation about protecting the taxpayers’ monies.
But among the tall list, what has captured the eyes of Ghanaians is the allowance that caters for inconvenience.
Social media users on Twitter say they are battling to grasp the reason a worker should be paid inconvenience allowance for the work he or she is paid a large amount of money to do.
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They argue that paying a worker such an allowance when the Ghanaian youth are unable to get jobs and better working conditions of service, is unfair and unacceptable.
Some users noted that the Electronic Transaction levy would not have been necessary if government had addressed such ill spending.
“Inconvenience allowance.. But you want the young doctor to go to the village with no electricity, internet or roads and manage with his salary….Yoo yate,” another user wrote.
“Clothing allowance of GH¢10,000, inconvenience allowance GH¢500 per day”
— Joy 99.7 FM (@Joy997FM) April 25, 2022
– Samson Lardy outlines allowances State-Owned Enterprises’ executives enjoy. #JoySMS pic.twitter.com/TTPOUsbjAM
WTH is inconvenience allowance??? Like all workers doing OT should be paid that too. https://t.co/uBVOlm1qDu
— Rue (@RUE07) April 25, 2022
Inconvenience https://t.co/QvapU5OAPu shuttered.
— MONEY✌?? (@yussif_baraky) April 25, 2022
Inconvenience allowance? What is that? https://t.co/3XnEvfnUKd
— Edem (@JonasKedzI) April 25, 2022
Inconveniencing the economy? https://t.co/gf2IJ9W07u
— Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) April 25, 2022
If Government cuts down all of these unnecessary waste of monies, we won’t need E-levy https://t.co/8Y381uXTgt
— Shere Khan (@N_O_IIX) April 25, 2022
The question now is… What is so “inconvenient” that you have to be paid 500gh per day to do it?
— mr asante (@k_asante10) April 25, 2022