Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso Central constituency, Sheikh I.C Quaye has described as baseless, criticisms against the recent salary hikes for the President, his deputy and other Article 71 public officers of the Executive arm of government.

The President will now be paid 12,000 Ghana cedis every month while his deputy will take home 10,500 Ghana cedis.

Ministers and deputy Ministers will be paid salaries ranging between 8,000 and 9000 Ghana cedis.

Anti graft body Ghana Integrity Initiative has been critical of the salary hikes which come just a few weeks after the Executive arm of government also raised the salaries of MPs to 7,200.

But Sheikh I.C Quaye in an interview with XYZ News said the critics are wrong.

“When you go to Togo, we are richer than them but their Parliamentarians are taken very good care of and here too the executive must be taken good care of.

“Do you know how much I take home at the end of every month, I go home with only two thousand and that is what I use to pay my drivers and buy fuel and all that so if MP’s are going to have something small to their pay I think that it is fine” Hon. I.C Quaye said.