President John Dramani Mahama has, with immediate effect, cancelled the payment and allocation of fuel allowances to all political appointees.
‘The directive forms part of a broader curb in government expenditure aimed at cutting cost and challenging public funds into priority areas’, a statement signed by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Minister for Government Communications intimated.
‘The President believes that leadership must also bear its part of the sacrifices it is calling on the people to make’, the statement dated Tuesday, July 15, 2025 added ‘the latest cost-cutting measure follows sweeping reduction in the size of government through the appointment of fewer Ministers and Presidential Office staff. Other measures have included stopping satellite TV subscriptions for offices at the Presidency and other government facilities’.
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SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
