The Controller and Accountant- General’s Department is expected to commence the payment of all civil servants by a biometric E-zwich platform in 2015.<\/p>\n
This follows an on-going pilot program to gradually ensure public sector workers are paid via the E-zwich payment system.<\/p>\n
The roll out plan was initially to start with the finance department of the Controller and Accountant- General’s Department , then to all staff members in Accra.<\/p>\n
But the department is currently closely monitoring how effective the payment of some 77,000 national service personnel would be , using the platform in the first two month of 2015.<\/p>\n
The new payment system is expected to help rid the payroll of fraud at the point of payment or Ghost names.<\/p>\n
After a rigorous process to remove ‘ghost names’ from government payroll, the public sector wage bill has reduced from 70% of government revenue to 57% in 2015.<\/p>\n
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPPS) Archie Hesse speaking to Citi Business News said , “controller indicated strongly that if national service is able to take off after two three months, what we would have proven is that we can go nationwide straight away”.<\/p>\n
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