Conversations about Cecilia Dapaah’s million dollar case have given way for some MPs to vent their long-held grievances over insufficient salaries.

Cletus Dapilah, Member of Parliament for Jirapa, revealed in a JoyNews interview on July 26, 2023, that as an MP, he can confidently say he does not even have GH 1000 saved in the bank.

“I don't even have a GHS1000 at the bank”, Mr Dapilah said.

MPs receive an average of GHS10,000, and according to Mr Dapilah, “most MPs are not very happy with” this situation.

According to Mr Dapilah, most, if not all, MPs are burdened with taking care of their constituents.

According to some MPs, it is commonplace to find a large number of constituents assembled at their gates every morning, either to secure funding for their ward's education or other financially related matters in that regard.

Hence “the MP's salary is for everybody. The MP's salary is not just for the MP. Whatever the MP is paid, it is still for everybody.”

In addition, half of the GHS 10,000 paid to him as salary is spent on fuel in his travels from Jirapa to Accra, and to make matters worse, some of the MPs “don't even get it because of the deductions on loans”.