Nkoranza (Brong Ahafo) 1st June '99

The government has released 396.8 million cedis for the payment of salary advance to civil servants in the Brong Ahafo region.

Workers who wish to enjoy the facility would be required to submit their last pay slips and justify why they need the salary advance which should not exceed one's two months gross monthly salary.

The Brong Ahafo regional secretary of the Civil Servants Association, Mr Asante Asubonteng, disclosed this when he addressed members of the association at a meeting on the association's co-operative housing scheme.

Mr Asubonteng said the housing scheme is designed to enable the members to have their own houses to alleviate accommodation problems facing them.

An educational programme has been launched to explain the scheme to members for them to patronise the scheme.

He explained that the scheme is open to all workers who would agree to make regular savings deductible at source and to buy entry equity, yet to be presupposed.