PAYROLL FRAUD IN THE CONTROLLER AND ACCOUNTANT GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT IS PERPETRATED BY THIEVES AND AN AFRON TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SO WE MUST ALL FIGHT AGAINST IT The second week of 2015 was characterized by many accusations and counter accusation between some Civil Society Organizations and government, specifically IMANI Ghana, a self-acclaimed think tank with international repute and a new group calling itself OCCUPYGHANA which members claimed to be average Ghanaians. The first debate was about a letter to the Auditor General by OCCUPYGHANA demanding that they retrieve all moneys mismanaged or misused by various individuals and group of persons in the civil service and public service. The second was a purported leaked special payroll audit report by KPMG on the IPPD2 of the Controller and Accountant General Department which got into the hands of IMANI Ghana and as usual Franklin Cudjoe tried to play his usual mischiefs about this report with a threat to exposing government. The debate also degenerated some kind of unpleasant banter between Franklin Cudjoe and Hon Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, the Minister of Agriculture, which I think could have been avoided if the word “idiot” were not introduced into the debate. I took my time to read through the said Audit Report by KPMG this afternoon and came to one conclusion that Franklin Cudjoe, as usual, rushed in commenting on the report without fully studying the whole document but only read the executive summary and decided to hung government with it which was very unfortunate. Let me state categorically here that I am a very staunch supporter of any move by anybody to ensure that corruption is eradicated from our public services to the barest minimum and if possible all moneys lost to the state could be retrieved and paid back to public chest to be used for developmental project. As I said earlier if Franklin had taken his time to study the report with all the attached appendixes properly he would have realized that this government rather must be given a thumb up for making the necessary efforts to ensure that names included in the IPPD2 Payroll system which are not supposed to be there in the first place are all expunged to save the country from losing millions of Ghana cedis every month. Let me state here that the said report was released as far back as November 2012 at the instance of government as explained by Dr. Clement Apaak on an Accra based radio station on Tuesday 13th January 2015 so I believed government is long in possession of the said report. I have taken my time to study about eight (8) list attached to the report by the Firm as an appendix made up of various names of people the auditors think were wrongly included in the payroll or have very funny input that makes them very suspicious. As I study the list I became very much alarmed in respect of some dates for the records in the database. Some years back I was an Account Officer at one of the public services and was responsible for payroll administration. During that period I was frequenting the Controller and Accountant General Department and remember some staff used to talk about how names are brought for them to include into the database without formal procedures and some were even incomplete data. I remember usually arguing with some of them that they are cowards if not they could refused to include those names because it is criminal to pay people who are not doing any work for the state and they are accomplices to that crime. It is a very well known secrete that the ghost names that has drained this country of millions into the pockets of some individuals were always added to the payroll with collaboration between senior government officials, heads of departments and staff at the Controller and Accountant General Department. The above was the reason why I was very shocked to the marrow while studying this very Payroll Audit Report by KPMG and if my analysis in proven to be correct then I can only say that some group of people in this country don’t have any right to lead the country. This is because if the huge numbers added to the payroll were just done within some few years that they were in the helm of affairs and they made sure that such orchestrated fishy dealings could go on with impunity then I wonder what moral rights they have asking Ghanaians to bring them back to power. How come that many of these names identified by the auditors in this particular report point fingers to the period of a particular political party’s leadership of this country? What were the intentions for including people who we know very well that they were not doing anything for the country but could move to the bank on monthly basis to collect salaries? Is it because they were thinking that because they won political power it was their time to just take everything for themselves with impunity? In fact I cried for mother Ghana as I read through the figures and making the needed analysis and it kept coming at me as the time many of these names were included in the national payroll system, which are now being declared by the auditors as possible ghost names that needed to be expunged from the payroll database. The analysis clearly shows that NPP deliberately added some of these names just to reward some of their supporters and cronies and the second part of this article will clear your minds on that. It is very surprising that those who intentionally caused these thieveries are today accusing government of their own crimes. Ghana is watching and the donor agencies that Franklin is calling on to withhold assistance to government based on this auditors report will hopefully do a deligent analysis to see the real criminals who caused Ghana to lose millions of their moneys. Ghana Must Succeed Inspite of The Invasion by Hypocrites and Charlatans. Wait for the second part showing details of analysis coming soon. By George E. Ekegey
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:49:04 +0000
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