Sentences with phrase «on emoluments»

And it is the primary reason why they put the prohibition on emoluments in the Constitution TWICE.

According to Mr. Agyekum, in 2001, following the Greenstreet Presidential Committee on Emoluments report, former President Rawlings for instance was allowed to make a preference for his residential accommodation and office, and he chose two bungalows at Ridge.

The Prof. Dora Francisca Edu - Buandoh committee on Emoluments and Conditions of Service for Article 71 office holders in its report on the recommendation of benefits for Presidents leaving office, named among other things an office space to be equipped with modern gadgets to be given to the retiring presidents, but President John Mahama even before being presented with the property has rejected it.

President Mahama's request to keep the bungalow, contrary to the approved recommendations set by the Prof. Dora Francisca Edu - Buandoh committee on Emoluments and Conditions of Service for Article 71 office holders, has created a public uproar, with many Ghanaians accusing the President of blatantly trying to acquire more than what has been approved for him by the state.

Mahama's request is contrary to the approved recommendations set by the Prof. Dora Francisca Edu - Buandoh committee on Emoluments and Conditions of Service for Article 71 office holders, which only prescribes the payment of 40 % of the retiring President's salary to him to cater for his rent.

Participants in a consultative meeting of the Presidential Committee on Emoluments have suggested that MPs be enrolled on the SSNIT or the other pension schemes.

According to the Presidential Committee on Emoluments which was set up by President John Mahama in accordance with the constitution of Ghana, all Article 71 office holders are to enjoy a 10 % increase in their monthly salary and must be retrospective to cover 2013.

Mr Thompson said Ghana spent approximately 71.4 per cent of domestic revenue in 2015 on emoluments and interest payment, which jumped to 78.2 per cent in 2016.

Not exact matches

Emolument, a company that collects data on pay, compiled a list of the 15 European universities whose finance students earned the most when they got out.

Business Insider asked Emolument, a salary - benchmarking website that collects self - reported pay data, to share information on which college majors earn the most money in the financial district.

«While MBA represent a substantial cost for professionals, their impact on one's earning potential and career is undeniable,» Thomas Drewry, one of Emolument's co-founders said.

When it comes to President Donald Trump's constellation of foreign investments, properties, and companies, much of the attention so far has been on his business's apparent violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bars officeholders from taking gifts from foreign leaders.

After that let's open hearings on Rump and the emolument clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution).

The bills creating the various agencies presumably give the President the authority to make cost of living adjustments to the salary of the position, but regardless unless the Attorney General position's salary was changed by Congress since he took office, he has never voted on the position's «Emoluments.»

They are therefore demanding that the Committee set up by the President to determine their emoluments to present its recommendations to the House as soon as practicable to enable the MPs to know their fate before the House goes on recess in the first week of next month.

The strongly worded statement called on the president to publish the salaries and emoluments of all appointed public office holders so Ghanaians can appreciate the true of cost of governing the country.

Accordingly, the Center implores the President to reduce the number of deputy ministerial nominees sent to Parliament for vetting and approval; and additionally calls on the President to publish the salaries and emoluments of all appointed public office holders so Ghanaians can begin to appreciate the true of cost of governing the country.

Mahama's request came on the back of recommendations made by the Prof. Dora Francisca Edu - Buandoh committee tasked to review emoluments of Article 71 office holders including the former president's retirement package.

If the Presidency does not review these «bogus» allocations in its proposed expenditure, it may lose the moral right to advise the National Assembly against spending some billions of naira on purchasing cars for its members despite the fact that the legislators have already collected their car allowances plus other sundry emoluments.

Ghana's Parliament has approved the report of the Presidential Committee on salaries and emoluments for Article 71 office holders including ex-gratia for outgoing President John Dramani Mahama.

This covers politicians who want access to public funds and the entire civil service structures at the federal and state level who despite being largely ineffective, corrupt and a drain on scarce public funds (with salaries and emoluments) have no productivity or performance objectives.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.