Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has introduced that authorities has exposed masses of ghost names on its payroll.
This consists of duplicates, a phenomenon this is contributing to the worsening financial outlook of the country.
This bureaucracy a part of the management’s efforts to dam loopholes and reduce lower back on corruption and corruption-associated activities.
Government says it is making an attempt to scale back on wastage and corruption and has rolled out mechanisms which includes sanitising the general public payroll, digitalisation, and improving price for cash in public expenditure.
In the primary section of the clean-up sporting events with the aid of using the Controller and Accountant General Department and the National Identification Authority (NIA), Dr. Bawumia says the establishments exposed a few 533 ghost names with more than one identities on the general public payroll.
The names, in line with Dr. Bawumia, have multiple Controller and Accountant General Department account with exclusive worker numbers.
Some 148,000 humans whose facts did now no longer fit the identity of all people withinside the database of the Ghana Card.
Dr. Bawumia who expressed fear approximately the revelation stated the crew gets to the lowest of the development.
“I’ve heard of ghost people however I’ve in no way heard of ghosts who're twins or triplets…that’s a brand new one however we can get to the lowest of the corruption with ghost people on our payroll,” he explained.
Dr. Bawumia went on to mention that the culprits “need to be punished to function a deterrent.”
The Vice President stated it at this year’s annual inner audit convention in Accra Tuesday in which he mentioned the important function the inner Audit Agency can play to assist inject financial area in aid mobilization.
Two days after President Akufo-Addo’s promise to restore and go back Ghana’s in poor health financial system to the course of financial growth, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia talking on the convention additionally reassured the enterprise network and the overall public that the management will now no longer relaxation till such time that the financial system starts offevolved to reflect pre-Covid-19 numbers.
The ongoing negotiation to steady a help software with IMF and different interventions with the aid of using authorities, are being taken to cope with the demanding depreciation of the cedi in a bid to carry down inflation which has long gone beyond the 30% mark, the worst withinside the closing decades.
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