148,000 worker identifications do not match Ghana card biometric IDs, according to Bawumia.
According to Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, 148,000 government employees on the payroll of the Controller and Accountant Generals Department have identifications that do not match any biometric identification at the National Identification Authority.
According to him, the development was discovered after the Controller and Accountant General Department conducted a biometric audit.
While speaking at the 2022 Internal Audit Agency Conference in Accra on Tuesday, August 16, Dr. Bawumia revealed that the Controller General's biometric audit discovered 533 government employees with multiple identities.
Speaking on the theme of the Conference, "Injecting Fiscal Discipline in Resource Mobilization and Utilization for Sustainable Development," the Vice President stated that many steps have been taken by the government to achieve fiscal consolidation, including improved revenue mobilization and reducing waste in the public sector through the use of digitization.
Dr. Bawumia revealed that the government is fighting identity fraud and corruption in the public sector through a robust identity system built with the Ghanacard and the digitization of government services.
"A key focus of the 2022 budget is fiscal consolidation to improve debt and fiscal sustainability as we implement our economic revitalization and transformation program to improve Ghanaians' lives," Dr. Bawumia said.
"Over the last four years, our approach has been to put in place measures to lay a solid foundation for domestic mobilization, cost savings, and corruption combat through digital transformation." And significant progress has been made."
“An exercise just completed last week by the Controller and Accountant General Department shows that 533 people on the CAD have multiple identities in the CAGD database,” Dr. Bawumia revealed.
"All employees with multiple identities have more than one CAGS account with different emotes numbers." Some employees have three employee numbers."
"In addition, 148,060 employees out of 601,948 have biometrics that do not match anyone on the National Identification register (i.e. no Ghanacard)."
"We'll look into the SSNIT database to see if their biometrics can be matched." Some of those who have matching biometrics may also have multiple employee accounts."
The Vice President's shocking revelations come on the heels of news that a recent biometric audit by the National Service Scheme (NSS) discovered approximately 14,000 ghost names on its payroll, saving the scene GHC 112 million per year.
Vice President Bawumia, who was dissatisfied with the level of corruption losses, directed the various prosecuting agencies to begin the process of prosecuting those involved in such criminal activities.
SSNIT also announced significant savings of up to $126 million as a result of the government's digitization drive and the implementation of a national identity system, as it will no longer print SSNIT ID cards for its targeted 10 million people, following the adoption of the Ghanacard as SSNIT numbers.
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