News:
August 14, 2017
A Deputy Minister for Finance and Member of Parliament for Atiwa East in the Eastern region, Abena Osei-Asare has disclosed that over 3000 public sector works are yet to be registered unto the SSNIT biometric system.
She assured of government’s determination to clean the payroll system to avoid payments to ghost names whilesurging all stakeholders to assist.
“A little above 3,000 are yet to do the biometric as we are speaking now. We all want to help the system, so if there is anything we have to do to clean the system, so that at the end of the day, we have a solid payroll, we all have to do it, we all have to help each other to make this thing possible.”
According to her a little over 22,000 workers have been registered unto the biometric system and are now receiving their salaries.
The Deputy Minister said these when the Ministry of Finance appeared before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.
On whether the process is still ongoing to have those unregistered (3,000 workers) back into the system, she explained that once they provide all their biometric details to SSNIT, automatically they would be reinstated unto the Controller and Accountant General(CAG) payroll system.
The Finance ministry has indicated that, government’s target for the reduction in wage spending is 35 per cent of revenue by 2017.
The payroll cleaning exercise forms part of efforts to block revenue leakages and make the most out of government’s revenue.
By Christian Kpesese/ ghanamps.com