The Minority in Parliament has accused the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA); Justin Kodua Frimpong and his management of cooking up figures that allegedly said it detected massive fraud in the payroll of beneficiaries that uncovered about GH¢50 million and got about 16,839 ghost names deleted from the system.
The YEA had earlier confirmed that it had deleted 16,839 names from its payroll. The Agency said it took the decision after its internal audit showed that thousands of beneficiaries of YEA were being fraudulently paid.
The agency stated that the rot amounted to over GH¢50 million.
According to the minority, it’s impossible to pay two or more beneficiaries through the same E-zwich numbers and that management of “YEA is either ignorant or only engaged in baseless cheap propaganda” as beneficiaries are only registered biometrically which makes it easier to identify them.
Also, they claim no beneficiary of the agency is ever paid through cash because all amounts from the agency are paid through an E-zwich biometric system and the remaining into their ADB bank accounts.
Addressing the press, Kobla Mensah Woyome, MP for South Tongu said the computerised system put in place by the previous management cannot be manipulated for fraudulent activities hence the allegation by the new management that the fraud occurred under the erstwhile government is questionable.
The minority therefore has challenged management of YEA to produce and publish ghost names and the said internal report by the Internal Audit Agency which they said existed on the payroll of the agency.
“We are challenging the leadership to produce the names, E-zwich numbers, modules, youth employment numbers, regions and districts for the said ghost names for the Public to check if beneficiaries cannot be traced to the four cycles of the YEA”.
“We are further challenging management to publish the said audit report of the internal audit agency it keeps referring to, together with the written responses of staff who were cited or implicated in the said report”, Kobla Woyome said.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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This Government is doing a lot 0f disservice to the country. They bring out all sort of lies to score political points. Poor people who are actually working names have been deleted and you come out to say Ghost names have been deleted?. if proper accounting was done, then they should be able to publicize those ghost names so that we can retrieve our so called stolen monies. unless of course they want to score political points.
Its a pity these babies with sharp teeth instead of sharp brains are destroying that party. Rawlings has regretted ever forming that party for thi*ves and dishonest people to hijack,what he forgot was introducing people's militia and the PDCs and wdcs were going to create lawlessness and indiscipline in the country,he took Ghana from a disciplined society and made it indiscipline and after 38 years Ghana is reaping what he sowed he is now going to celebrate his 70th birthday and has regretted killing those generals who could have contributed to the building of this country. Look at the sort of people in his party who call themselves politicians none is patriotic to the state, they hate Ghana to the core and these people in their lives have nothing than being in the ndc and ste*ling and destroying the country. They defend every evil to the state and oppose every good to the state such are the people Rawlings has brought into the country and nurtured and have turned into evils and even attacking him. Ndc are satanic,they don't deserve a day in power in Ghana. Never again should Ghanaians entertain them in their country.
Records show that over 60 year olds are beneficiaries. What is happening in Ghana? And NDC defending!
NDC is defending everything.Fraustrated people.
The new management should think about what beneficiarys eat, ware and bath if they are left unpaid from October 3 to date. If it were them can the survive with wives and children, 9 months without money? How much is the allowances? Ghc250.