Assemblies want allowances paid from Consolidated Fund

Presiding Members of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Ashanti Region are asking that their allowances and that of the members are paid directly from the Consolidated Fund. 
 
They maintained that the job that they had been doing was comparable to that of the Members of Parliament (MPs) and therefore it should not be out of place to tie their emolument to the Fund. 
 
This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a three-day workshop held at Konongo in the Asante-Akim Central Municipality, which was signed by Mr. Dadzie the Dean.
 
The programme provided the platform to deliberate ways of enhancing the performance of the assemblies.
  
The Presiding Members proposed uniformed salary payment to assembly members.
  
GNA