GOV’T SAVES GH¢433 MILLION FROM REMOVAL OF GHOST WORKERS –
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;Kulenunewsblog
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