{"id":58708,"date":"2014-10-22T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=58708"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:26:34","slug":"salaries-of-suspected-ghost-names-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=58708","title":{"rendered":"Salaries of suspected &#8216;ghost names&#8217; frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government workers across seven regions without bank accounts will not receive their October salaries, the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department (CAGD) has indicated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the CAGD, the move forms part of measures to sanitize the payroll system from \u2018ghost names\u2019 which continue to drain government\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government has been battling to rid the payroll system of ghost names receiving salaries from the CAGD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;GcfCpVFwn24Aa23y4iMPa4Z9sAY6FV5P&#8221;]In order to halt\u00a0the payment of such monies however the CAGD in September 2014, suspended salaries of about 20,000 employees without bank accounts in the Greater Accra, Volta, Central, and Western regions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a press release copied to <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong> the exercise will be extended to the remaining regions including Eastern, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions in October, 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Controller and Accountant Generals Department \u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/07\/21\/3179-ghost-names-deleted-from-national-payroll\/\" target=\"_blank\">deleted 3,179 ghost names from the pay rolls<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of public institutions in the Greater Accra alone between April and June 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the CAGD has assured to refund salaries to the affected civil servants\u00a0who had their salaries suspended in September and October &#8220;if they submit the required information by November 7, 2014 to update their data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTheir records will be updated to enable them to receive salary in November 2014,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government workers across seven regions without bank accounts will not receive their October salaries, the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department (CAGD) has indicated. According to the CAGD, the move forms part of measures to sanitize the payroll system from \u2018ghost names\u2019 which continue to drain government\u2019s revenue. Government has been battling to rid the payroll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":58709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-58708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}