The Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) has placed salaries of some staff on the Government of Ghana (GoG) payroll on hold due to unmatched National Identification Authority (NIA) numbers.
This follows a routine payroll audit, which found inconsistencies in the NIA details of some government workers.
Therefore, their March 2025 salary has been put on hold for correction and investigation.
Through a public announcement by the CAGD, the affected institutions were asked to send their updated employee lists, or Nominal Roll, for verification and possible reinstatement of salaries.
To expedite the settlement process, Human Resource (HR) directors are to retrieve correct employee information from their company e-mails, rectify discrepancies, and provide explanations on how discrepancies arose.
The cleaned-up records are to be electronically sent to the provided email addresses—ppd.nominalroll@cagd.gov.gh and ppdcoordination2@gmail.com—on or before April 4, 2025.
The suspension has caused anxiety among some of the government employees, who also lamented that they had not received their March salaries although they had passed the validation exercise. The statement by the CAGD is meant to allay fears of the delays in salaries as a failure of the system but a selective intervention meant to address anomalies in the payroll system.
The affected personnel are instructed to further consult their individual Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database (IPPD) coordinators in their various districts. The coordinators shall brief them thoroughly on the way forward and address any unresolved issues that will arise from the anomaly of the NIA numbers.
This step underscores the government's continuous efforts aimed at streamlining the efficiency of the payroll system as well as removing inconsistencies that might lead to the culture of financial irregularities. While the step is expected to cause inconvenience to the affected staff in the short run, it is projected to increase payroll efficiency as well as transparency in the future.
Employees are therefore requested to comply with instructions issued by the CAGD and register their identification information to avoid complications in the future.
With the deadline of April 4, institutions and employees must act quickly to rectify mistakes and enable timely restoration of salaries. Success or failure of this exercise will be a critical benchmark point in the government's broader effort to sanitize payroll management and eliminate ghost claims on the public payroll.
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