Funds that accrued from former President John Mahama’s 10% salary cut policy which affected himself, his deputy and all appointees, cannot be traced by the Controller and Accountant General.
The voluntary austerity move was announced by the Mahama administration in the 2014 State of the Nation Address.
The pay cut summed up to a total of GHS2.5million at the end of December 2016.
The amount was deposited in a special account recommended by the former president to be used for the construction of Community-based Health Planning and Services compounds or CHPS compounds.
The Controller and Accountant General’s Department in February confirmed to TV3 that the 10% deducted from the salaries of the former president, his deputy and 52 ministers as well as other government appointees, was done for a period of three years.
Head of payroll at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department, George Baah in an interview with TV3 in February said: “A monthly average of around GHS 52,000 accrued from the deductions.”
Mr. Baah, however, indicated that “as to the disbursement, who is in charge, whether it was indeed being used to finance the construction of those projects was totally out of my remit.”
When he appeared before the Public Accounts Committee of parliament on Wednesday, 9 August 2017, Deputy Controller and Accountant General Kwesi Owusu said former Chief of Staff Julius Debrah per a letter ordered the transfer of the amount in 2014.
"...As to what they have done with the money, that one is not an area for us to answer because it was not statutory deductions which we should have taken and then say pay to SSNIT or pay to GRA. This one was a voluntary deduction so when you deduct you give it to the one who asked you to deduct on his behalf.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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ROCKIE GHANAIANS NEVER VOTED MAHAMA AND NDC INTO POWER. REMEMBER THEY LOST THE 2012 ELECTIONS AND AFTER THE PINK SLIP CHALLENGE IN COURT, THEY B-R-I--B--ED, THAT JUSTICE FROM HIS TRIBE AND MANY MORE WITH HUGE SUMS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND HE WAS FRAUDULENTLY DECLARED WINNER? HE NEVER WON PERIOD AND THATS WHY HE WAS MESSING UP JUST AS TRUMP IS DOING IN THE USA NOW.
What do you think the Controller and Accpuntant general is there for? Those are the government accountants; they know what goes on and what goes out. Fact of the matter is the 10% was lip service and was just meant to calm tempers of the Ghanaian populace! It was never meant in deed! You've been 'f00led'!
This is absurdity why do not wait to hear from the government which received the money and its utilisation instead this putting the cart before the horse that we have engaged ourselves.
Eeeeeeiiiii, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Are we safe?
Greedy John Mahama is a criminal more than Atta Ayi.... We must never allow these NDC criminal gang to rule this country again.
What on earth made Ghanaians vote for Mahama and the NDC? They are crook, PLAIN AND SIMPLE! They didn't have any agenda to help the Motherland but had elaborate strategies to drain us white. That is exactly what they did. Ghanaians, PLEASE!! don't vote for NDC again. Kwesi Nduom's party is there. If you need a good alternative, vote for PPP. NDC has no plans for the masses.
You can always trust the John Mahama team to pull a fast scam on us. Nothing about the NDC is clean. Lets wait and see how they spin this one too. JM administration is so disgusting! You simply cannot isolate them from ***barred word***/corruption or 419.
So Controller and Acountant General you believe in fake Mahama. Ekura wo y3regye na wode ato ho.Mahama and his gang scramble to take what did not belong them and you think the could sacrifice anything for the nation. Dont be naive.
So Controller and Acountant General you believe in fake Mahama. Ekura wo y3regye na wode ato ho.Mahama and his gang scramble to take what did not belong them and you think the could sacrifice anything for the nation. Dont be naive.
The biggest Ponzi scheme of our time. Bigger than DKM. Mahama's gvt was utterly disgraceful.