Renowned US-based Ghanaian lawyer and scholar, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, has shared some details of the salaries of heads of Independent Governance Bodies (IGBs), including the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) and the Auditor-General's Department.
The details showed that the salaries of the Chairperson of the EC, the Auditor-General, the Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), and other IGB heads increased by more than 80% between 2020 and 2024.
The heads of the IGBs were earning over GH¢34,000 per month as salary in 2020.
This increased by 4% to about GH¢36,000 in 2021.
