{"id":111943,"date":"2015-04-28T06:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=111943"},"modified":"2015-04-28T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:29:08","slug":"accountant-general-directed-to-open-ghost-name-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=111943","title":{"rendered":"Accountant General directed to open \u2018ghost name\u2019 account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government has directed\u00a0the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department (CAGD) to open a special account in which monies paid to alleged \u201cghost names\u201d will be refunded to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;dpg9jobbZzbhwyzinHma2Y14X37fBkpu&#8221;]The\u00a0Minister of Finance, Seth Terpker announced this at a public hearing at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) sitting in Parliament on Monday in Accra where he explained how this would prevent waste in the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Controller and Accountant Generals Department has been directed to open an account into which banks will refund monies that are found to be unaccounted for or fraudulent,\u201d said Seth Terkper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Public Accounts Committee during the sitting threw more light on government\u2019s payroll which it said is still suffering from salaries that have been lodged into bank\u00a0accounts of employees who are either deceased or stopped working with their departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government has been battling to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/07\/21\/3179-ghost-names-deleted-from-national-payroll\/#sthash.6h3iJIc9.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>rid the payroll system of ghost names<\/strong><\/a><\/span> who are still being paid from the CAGD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to halt the payment of such monies however the CAGD in September 2014, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/22\/salaries-of-suspected-ghost-names-frozen\/#sthash.AYWZGeu7.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>suspended salaries of about 20,000 employees<\/strong><\/a><\/span> without bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seth Terkper called on heads of MDAs to assist the Controllers Department to \u00a0eliminate ghost names as they have\u00a0 direct responsibility over their staff and are duty bound to\u00a0 notify the department whenever a staff is no longer in service since\u00a0\u201cthey manage the staff at the unit level and it will be prompt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For instance if a teacher is transferred or retired or in the event where they die the information will be provided promptly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was optimistic that the move will help bring sanity and help &#8220;improve the payroll and the accounting system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has directed\u00a0the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department (CAGD) to open a special account in which monies paid to alleged \u201cghost names\u201d will be refunded to. 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