Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Minority Chief Whip, has blown an alarm concerning the recruitment of over 3,000 contract staff at the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).
According to Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP, over 3,000 EPA staff were recruited without proper financial clearance contrary to public financial management procedures.
He further alleged that the newly recruited workers have also suffered drastic salary cuts.
Frank Annoh Dompreh, in an open letter to President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday, made these allegations known.
The minority chief whip stated, “Over 3,000 persons were reportedly recruited as contract staff at a time when the Authority did not yet have a properly constituted Governing Board”.
Annoh Dompreh further alleged that the appointment letters issued to some recruits placed them on salary levels above existing officers, including senior technical staff and management personnel.
He alleged that some recruits were placed directly into senior staff positions “without adherence to established recruitment procedures, grading structures, or career progression requirements within the public service framework.”
“Subsequent financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance covered only approximately 500 positions, leaving a large number of previously engaged contract personnel without a clear legal or fiscal regularisation pathway,” he stated.
The Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP further alleged that workers who accepted employment offers at the EPA are now facing severe salary reductions.
“Young Ghanaians were recruited through a transparent process, with contractual salaries clearly defined by rank, ranging from GHS 8,000 to GHS 12,000 and up to GHS 14,000,” he said.
“Just months into their probation, these same individuals have been blindsided. Their salaries have been unilaterally slashed to between GHS 3,000 and GHS 4,000, a reduction of nearly 70%.”
He stated, “Those who resigned from their teaching posts cannot return since their former positions have been filled. They are now trapped, earning less than junior clerks, yet overqualified for alternatives”.
“The message being sent is terrifying, that in Ghana, a signed employment contract is not worth the paper it is written on,” he stressed.
In related news, Prof Henry Kwasi Prempeh, the Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee, has fumed over Ghana’s practice of paying retired public officials salaries.
According to Prof Prempeh, Ghana must scrap the payment of salaries to retired public officials.
Prof Prempeh described the practise as ridiculous, questioning which country in the world pays salaries to retirees.
In a Facebook post on March 17, 2026, Prof Prempeh wrote, “We must scrap the ‘retirement on salary’ compensation practices in our public sector. Do we know any other place in the world where this sort of thing happens as commonly as it does here? We are just ridiculous!”