All government appointees who have failed to declare their assets by the March 31, 2025, deadline issued by President John Dramani Mahama are to forfeit three months of their salary, the President has directed.
The President has however given a reprieve and extended a new deadline to Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
Any appointee who fails to meet this new deadline should consider themselves dismissed.
President John Dramani Mahama gave the directive when he launched a new code of conduct for all government appointees on Monday, May 5, 2025.
“All appointees who failed to declare their assets by March 31, 2025, will forfeit four months’ salary and are to make a matching donation to the Ghana Medical Trust Fund,” Mr Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Minister of State in charge of Government Communications wrote on X
Out of the four months, one month is a contribution to the MahamaCares Medical Fund and the remaining three months is for the failure to meet the March 31 deadline to declare assets.
Mr Kwakye Ofosu added that any official who fails to comply by the end of Tuesday, May 6, “stands automatically dismissed.”
President Mahama has fulfilled his own asset declaration obligations ahead of the deadline, as required under Article 286 of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution. The law mandates public officeholders to declare their assets and liabilities both upon assuming office and when leaving.
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