Minister orders controller to stop paying unpaid wages

Mr. Solomon Boar, North-East Regional Minister, raised concerns about the phenomenon of unearned wages.

He calls the controller and accountant general to work with other state departments to stop them.

Boar said the country was losing a lot of money every year by not paying people for any work done, adding that it was a burden on the Treasury.

Mr. Boar made this appeal when Eugene Ofosuhene, Comptroller and Accountant General, called him to the North Regional Coordinating Council in Tamale to inform him of his visit to the region.

Mr. Ofosuhene was in the area as part of his service trip to interact with the Comptroller and Accountant General staff to learn more about their challenges and how they were performing. of their functions.

Mr. Boar said stopping unearned wages would ensure that these funds are channeled to other sectors of the economy to strengthen development.

Unearned wages occur when a staff member retires, dies or resigns but their names are not cleared from the payroll system and they continue to be paid.

Mr Boar also stressed the need to improve the connectivity of networks in rural areas to help the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to use the system efficiently and on time. Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS).

Mr Ofosuhene urged MMDAs, ministries, departments and agencies to help by regularly removing the names of staff who have died, resigned or retired, in order to put an end to the phenomenon of unearned salaries.

He ensured the intensification of surveillance to remedy the situation, stating that banks had been made aware of the reimbursement of the sums paid by the government to the accounts of the staff, who never claimed it.

He said that a lot of work was being done in the area of ​​payroll system review to make it credible.

Mr. Ofosuhene then joined a group of staff from the Comptroller and Accountant General's Department to discuss with them their issues and the need to work to improve the performance of public finance management.

-GNA