Auditing service surprised by public service fraud rate

The National Payroll and Personnel Audit Exercise revealed a disturbing trend in the widespread use of fake certificates and promotional letters by some officials to receive salaries.

million. George Winful, Deputy Auditor General and Team Leader of the Exercise, who made the revelation at a press conference in Cape Coast on Friday expressed dismay over the practice.

Subsequently, heads of institutions and agencies were urged to be meticulous in their recruitment of employees into the public service. in their human resources files high-risk officers in their respective institutions.

"In addition to just listing, we are also interested in knowing the authenticity of the documents that are presented before us." Some of them become a disturbing trend, if the signals we begin to see is something that is real, then the head of the institutions must be meticulous in the examination of their employees "Mr. Winful said:

"We have had cases where some people have used other people's certificates for employment.You can imagine if such a person is in the clbadroom, so can to be that this could be the reason for poor results in high schools, "he said.

"We have encountered situations where some people are trying to take up salaries at positions that they did not reach because they falsified this or that," he said. he says.

Winful said that his organization had received information about cases of fake certificates in some public institutions and said that they would be the subject of an investigation and that the guilty parties would be punished in result.

He said that there were cases of photocopies but he indicated that these were some of the high-risk problems that could compromise the system.

From now on, he said that He said that in situations where people submit photocopies, their institutions should be able to provide a complete list of promoters with appropriate letterheads to confirm the authenticity of the document. Mr. Winful welcomed the decision of the Comptroller and the Accountant General to punish those who exceeded their personal compensation budget, adding that "all these anomalies lead to an increase in the wage bill of the respective institutions, which probably leads to a budget overrun ". "

He urged institutional leaders to refrain from selling vacancies to people who did not have the requisite certificates to fill this position, adding that anyone who must touch government payrolls must follow the process of [19659002] The Ghana Audit Service and the Department of Comptrollers and Accountants General launched the National Pa yroll and Staff Validation Audit on Tuesday, July 17 in the Central Region to clean up the bloated payroll.

Source: GNA