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Presidential Commission On Public Services Pension Schemes Inaugurated
Ghana
Web News
August 4, 2004
Accra
, Aug. 4, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday stressed the
need for a new Pension Scheme that would be appreciated by Ghanaian
workers.
"We all want to retire on sustainable incomes that would make us
comfortable in our old age we, therefore, need to find a new scheme all of
us would appreciate", he said.
President Kufuor made the call when administering the oaths of office and
secrecy to the nine-member Presidential Commission on Public Service
Pension Schemes at the Castle, Osu.
The Chairman of the Commission is Mr T.A. Bediako, former
Secretary-General of Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and
Private Consultant in Labour Relations.
President Kufuor said there could not be any sustainable Pension Scheme
without better salaries and wages; therefore, to move away for the current
low salaries and wages, we need to take a comprehensive look at the
salaries and wages.
"Ghanaian workers are demanding that better conditions are given for
respectable retirement. We hope you will come out with recommendations to
the Government on what should be done."
Mr Bediako on behalf of the members said it was an honour and a challenge
to the Commission to work out a suitable scheme for workers on retirement,
those about to retire and those entering into retirement. He said the
Commission would need the support and assistance of the Ministers,
Ministries, civil society, workers organisations and other stakeholders,
who would directly or indirectly be affected by such a scheme.
Mr Bediako pledged that the Commission would come out with a report that
would stand the test of time for the Ghanaian worker.
Other members of the Commission are; Ms. Josephine Amoah, Commissioner,
National Insurance Commission; Mr Austin Gamey, Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of Gamey and Gamey Academy of Mediation and former National
Democratic Congress (NDC) Deputy Minister of Manpower Development and Mr
Martin Esson Benjamin, Chairman, Ghana Brewery Limited and Member of Ghana
Investment Advisory Council.
The rest are; Chief Adam, former Managing Director of Electricity Company
of Ghana; Mr Andrew K. Asamoah, former Director of Human Resources, WHO,
Geneva; Captain Joel K. Sowu, Retired Army Officer; Mr Daniel Aidoo Mensah,
former Managing Director of Metropolitan Insurance and Mrs I.M.A. Wontumi,
a Retired Civil Servant.
Following agitations from Teachers and Civil Servants that they should be
placed on CAP 30 Pension Scheme, which had better conditions than the
present Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Pension and
the restoration of the End of Service Benefits to them, the President
promised to establish a Commission to examine their proposals.
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