New teachers and election officers will send amount of money government will spend on salary to 4.9 billion dalasis in 2021

The government will spend 4.9 billion dalasis on salary alone next year, the minister of finance has said.

Appearing before MPs on Thursday, Mambury Njie said: “Personal emoluments are projected to also increase from 4.4 billion dalasis equivalent to 85.1 million US dollars in 2020 to 4.9 billion dalasis that’s equivalent to 94.7 million dollars in 2021.

“The increase in PEs is as a result of additional 2,000 teachers being recruited for the ministry of basic and secondary education, payment of allowances to election officers as well as factoring yearly increment based on promotion.”