[ 2017-01-18 ]

Brigadier General (rtd) Joseph Nunoo Mensah

Huge ex-gratia for former presidents a burden – Nunoo Mensah
A former national security advisor to the late
President Mills, Brigadier General (rtd) Joseph
Nunoo Mensah has called on former Heads of State
to consider the burden of their severance packages
on the national purse and decide whether or not to
accept them.

His comments come after reports emerged on Tuesday
that former Presidents John Rawlings and John
Kufuor were given lands by the Mahama-led
administrations as part of their retirement
packages.

According to a document sighted by
StarrFMonline.com, the lands along the Sekou Toure
Street, Ridge in Accra were leased to the founder
of the NDC in 2016 at a yearly irrevocable rent of
GHS10 for 99 years, renewable for 50 years after
expiration, for purposes of establishing the
Rawlings Foundation.

The office of Former President Rawlings has since
rubbished reports that the previous National
Democratic Congress (NDC) administration leased
over four acres of unnumbered plots of land to
him.

A statement said although the former military
ruler made a request for the establishment of the
Rawlings Foundation, there was no action on the
approval given by the previous government until it
lost the December 7 elections.

However, speaking on Morning Starr Wednesday, the
former Chief of Defense Staff, told host Nii Arday
Clegg that the economic conditions of Ghanaians
make it dishonourable for respected holders of the
highest office of the land to accept such offers.

“We should be morally guided…it is in the
Bible to be given and not to take, it is more
honourable to be given and not to be taken. We are
always grabbing, look at the lands at cantonments
we have sold all of them to ourselves.

“We don’t think about Ghana, we only think
about how much we can grab from Ghana and that is
wrong.”

Source - Starrfmonline.com.

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