News:
February 9, 2022
The Public Account Committee has served notice it would contact the Director of Interpol to help tract down one Afia Nyarkowaa who was a teacher at the Nursing and Midwifery Training College at Pantan to help retrieve monies she owed the state.
“We are getting the Director of Interpol to tract and get her so that the government could retrieve it money” Chairman of PAC has said.” Meanwhile, the Committee has also directed the Principal and Head of Account to report the case to the police to have the other person also arrested to help retrieve the money.
Madam Afia Nyarkowaa and one other person are said to have received salaries to the tune of GHC82, 542.9, monies they were not entitled to because they were not at post. Responding to questions at the Public Account Committee on the 2018 Auditor General’s Report covering events in 2017, on infractions on “Unearned Salary” on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, the Principal of the college, Mercy Adzo Kporku revealed that Afia Nyarkowaa who owed a chunk of the money of GHC 69.069.92 is out of the country and has paid only GHC10, 000.00 while the other person who owed 13,473.9 is yet to pay anything.
“If any relative of her is listening to us then they should make the effort and contact the school for the appropriate arrangement and pay the money.” According to the Chairman of PAC, the action of the Administrator, Betrand Yabani who validated the pay voucher for all these periods to enable Afia Nyarkowaa to receive that much is suspiciously complicit and needed to be questioned.
Mr Avedzi, therefore, directed the Ga South Health Directorate to fish-out Mr. Yabani who is said to have been transferred to the Ga South Municipality to let him report at the PAC meeting tomorrow. He believed that if the administrator were able to do his work well, we wouldn’t be where we are now.
The Ranking Member, and Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa South, Kofi Okyere Agyekum advised heads of departments to take immediate steps to block the salaries of their staff who vacate post for more than ten days, stating that if they fail to do so they would be surcharged because it is negligence on their part.
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