The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that through a payroll audit conducted by the Ministry of Finance, under the impressive leadership of Ken Ofori-Atta, in the last two months, some 26,589 workers’ salaries have been suspended from the April 2017 payroll.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “These "workers" have not come forward to be biometrically verified by SSNIT, despite numerous calls by the Controller and Accountant General to do so. The idea of biometric verification is essentially to isolate ghost names from the payroll.”
The cost of maintaining these 26,589 names on government payroll, the President stated, is GH¢36,166,203 per month, implying that “government stands to save the country over GH¢433 million on this year’s budget alone by this exercise.”
President Akufo-Addo made this known on Monday, 1st May, 2017, when he delivered his May Day address to workers, at the Independence Square, in Accra.
In addition to the biometric verification of workers, President Akufo-Addo reiterated that other efforts aimed at cleaning the payroll are being undertaken by government.
These include a new payment system that will integrate the GHIPSS payment platform for salaries to be paid directly to workers without any manual intervention, as has always been the case. This, he added, will be implemented on a test basis this month and envisaged to cover finally all workers in June 2017.
“SSNIT has also been asked to create a separate database for the Controller, by biometrically registering close to two hundred thousand CAP30 workers. Government payroll will now have a direct interface with this and the existing database, thus reducing payroll fraud to the barest minimum. This will provide a complete end-to-end visibility of the entire payroll system, while having a seamless integration between payroll cost and the government’s general ledger,” the President said.
He stressed that “if we are to pay workers well, we must do at least two things: get rid of ghost ones and enhance the efficiency of genuine ones.”
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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The president and his team would always be phony. How has the government saved money when people are just ask to register biometrically before they are paid, and some have still in the process of doing it? You just coin some about and claim its saving to the state when those you claim are ghost have only not registered biometrically but are still busily working for Ghana.
The fact that some workers have not registered biometricaaly with SSNIT does not mean they are ghost workers,No worker was told that his salary will be paid based on biometric registration,that was why some workers did not register,Policticians are just happy making people suffer ,they turn around and steal all our money.they names are not ghost names.
u think is funny news huh, because your stealing tactics have been exposed so u calling it sh1tty, wait to see how we clear you all out if you think you have a genuine case with your IPPD IT system why not go directly for it to be corrected but you're here down playing someones hard work done....Nitwit tw3rp ANY LET CONGRATULATE MY PRESIDENT BAAAKO PE, NOOO SIZE INFACT WANI ABIEE RUFF, IT at work infact u make wana confidence come basaaa. GOD GIVE YOU MORE INSIGHT
Bravo!!
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The fun part of this supposed saved money is that the people will eventually show and they will be paid. Its just like a deferred debt obligation. Whether this month or next year you will still be obliged to pay all this people. The system is kinda sh..ty cos almost 90% of the people already have regsitered and were not captured by the yuseless controller IPPD IT system. Waste of news space
There is ghost names everywhere. Ghost name in payroll, ghost names in national health insurance . ghost name in voters register. in all this the nation loses. Please save the nation fast processing the national identification project..
Good News for Ghana.