Pressure group Committee for Joint Action (CJA) is asking government to consider the proposal of pegging the levels of increase in salaries of Members of Parliament (MPs) to that of workers in the civil and public service. MPs are proposing that their salaries be increased from 3,000 to 7,000 Ghana cedis in tandem with the salaries of some chief executives in the country. They are also justifying their demand for the increase on financial demands from their constituents as one of many reasons. Their proposed increments have been heavily criticized by sections of the public. The CJA says the MPs must focus on the work of lawmaking and stop doling out monies to their constituents. Convener of the CJA, Mr Kwesi Adu told Joy News’ Araba Koomson that the MPs ought have been magnanimous enough and argue for general increases in the salaries of all workers. He said the MPs’ argument that the needed more money because of financial demands on them by their constituents was untenable. “Why should the people of Ghana be made to pay for the promises that individual aspirants to Parliament make to people?” he asked. Mr Adu said if people ask for money from their MPs, it should indicate to the MPs that there is poverty in the country and they as MPs must introduce measures that will put money in the pocket of every citizen. Source: Joy News/Ghana