Salaries of suspected ‘ghost names’ frozen

Controller and Accountant General Government workers across seven regions without bank accounts will not receive their October salaries, the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has indicated.

According to the CAGD, the move forms part of measures to sanitize the payroll system from ‘ghost names’ which continue to drain government’s revenue.

Government has been battling to rid the payroll system of ghost names receiving salaries from the CAGD.

In order to halt the payment of such monies however the CAGD in September 2014, suspended salaries of about 20,000 employees without bank accounts in the Greater Accra, Volta, Central, and Western regions.

In a press release copied to citifmonline.com, the exercise will be extended to the remaining regions including Eastern, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions in October, 2014.

The Controller and Accountant Generals Department  deleted 3,179 ghost names from the pay rolls of public institutions in the Greater Accra alone between April and June 2014.

However, the CAGD has assured to refund salaries to the affected civil servants who had their salaries suspended in September and October “if they submit the required information by November 7, 2014 to updatetheir data.”

“Their records will be updated to enable them to receive salary in November 2014,” the release said.

-By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana