Prez. Akufo-Addo donates his 3 months salary to fight coronavirus

Ghana’s President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has donated his three months salary as seed money to help fight the dreaded coronavirus.

“I have directed the Controller and Accountant General to pay my April, May and June salaries to a special fund that would receive donations from philanthropists to help fight the outbreak,” the President said in a televised speech on Friday.

According to the President this would “support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain, and combat coronavirus”.

In 2018, President Akufo-Addo donated his one month salary of GHC29,000.00 to the Korle Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Fund.

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