The interdicted Head of IT for the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Dr. Caleb Afaglo has dismissed claims that his academic credentials are questionable.
The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) has interdicted Mr. Afaglo over claims that his certificates are fake and therefore he does not deserve his position at SSNIT.
But responding to the charge in a Facebook conversation Monday, Mr. Afaglo said: “This is not my first job, so there is absolutely no truth in it right? None whatsoever. My Ph.D. University closed down in 2011, how is that my fault. And how does that make the degree a fake one when I graduated in 2007”.
According to Starr FM sources, Dr. Afaglo had indicated that he had a BSC and MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the Kennedy Western University.
Prior to his appointment at SSNIT, Dr. Afaglo had worked as IT consultant for the Trust, National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA), Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), and at MTN Ghana and Action Chapel International as the Data Services Supervising Engineer.
Th qualification controversy comes after SSNIT is being slammed for purchasing a controversial OBS software at a cost $72million.
SSNIT settled for the $72 million OBS software to automate all the core processes in the administration of pension although it received tenders to undertake the project at much cheaper prices including $9 million.
A document on the deal indicates that the eventual winner of the contract bid produced a tender price of $27,610,792 but that was reviewed to 34, 011,914.21 after the General Services Manager of SSNIT identified arithmetic errors in the tender of the eventual winner, Perfect Business Systems, and Silverlake Consortium.
Perfect Business Systems and Silverlake Consortium was chosen out of the total of 10 companies and joint venture responded to the tender by the October 19, 2011, deadline.
Perfect Business System’s $34million was almost nine times the amount presented by Persol Systems, about $4million.
Sambus Company Limited presented the second least bid price of $9.8 million.
After the deal between SSNIT and Perfect Business Systems and Silverlake Consortium was sealed in 2012, the cost of the project increased by about $32million.
The increase was attributed to the procurement of additional equipment including servers and flash drives and headsets.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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You too haba! After all this, you won't keep quiet! You are still talking! What kind of Ewe man are you???
NO,Your degree is in FAKING INCOMPETENT NDC GOVT APPOINTEES. Not IT.
nana Addo says he will give speeches until corruption will get tired and end by itself.
@FRED-Apostle Kwadwo Safo has never condemned qualifications, in fact, he cherishes it that was why he has invested so much in his children education. Again, he has never committed or indulged in any act of criminality or fraud but this guy (Afaglo)has entangled himself in that, so stop the thinking that the man is competent on the job or given some inputs. Also bear in mind that the output has shown the kind of input he made. If SSNIT is his person establishment would he have spent whooping $72 million on only defunct Software? Do not be a sycophant. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Presenting a fake certificate despite any other credentials is CRIMINAL. It appears the guy never schooled in Ghana apart from may be his secondary education. This is a plan to avoid any interaction with any potential classmates. A check can be made from the US Embassy if he was ever issued with a student visa to study in the United States. He appeared smart but no CLEVER enough.
It is great to know that there are people like you in Ghana.
@fred. You cannot develop a country with skilled people who are not honest. And in this case, he even lacks the skill to perform. It is people like you who are drawing the development of this country backwards. We need to be sincere. Presenting fake certificate is criminal but you see nothing wrong with that so far as the person who did that is able to perform his duties. Are you a fraudster yourself?This Caleb guy attended Adisco in 1998 but could not finish. When did he continue his secondary school?When did he complete his first degree? Beo, it seems your common sense has deserted you. It is a pity you rather think others lack common sense. Hmm! Ghana.
Just Googled Kennedy Western University where he had his PhD, it has no accreditation in the USA!
This was a master CREATE ;LOOT and Share scheme planned by the NDC under Jon mahama to deliberately still from Ghanaians ; they deliberately pushed and gave the job to this Afaglo and ewe clone ; they knew the man was fake and knew his performance was poor ; how much does it cost SSNIT to seek confidential information about this guy from the Unite States - Nothing !!!!!besides anybody who attends a credible universty anywhere in the world have the data at these universities including all project work for your first degree to a Phd ; so why was SSNIT not able to do due diliigence ; SIMPLY COLLUSION FRAUD ; the opportunity was there for the NDC to use this Afaglo to siphon funds from SSNIT; this was a massive fraud from the sit of government by Jon Mahama who knew about the FRAUD !!; did you think Jon Mahama never knew anything about this massive Fraud by Ernest Thompson ; the key point was that this fraudester was an ewe and NDC member ; the evidence for such comments are there for anybody who cares to find out ; there is Woyome another ewe who was used to siphon government cash to build the NDC head office ; Adzfo ; provide inflated figures for the bus branding ; the there is NADMO under Potuphy who mis directed and appropriated funds to NDC ; most corruption at the procurement office and funds diverted to NDC funds were full of ewes
I think no one on the platform has questioned his intel. I join the millions questioning the gentleman's INTEGRITY. Thats all.