About 4000 ghost names of people have been removed from the government payroll system.<\/p>\n
These names had been captured as teachers in the government schools nationwide.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper revealed this when he touted government\u2019s achievement in drastically reducing ghost names on Ghana\u2019s payroll system on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He attributed the success to a number of measures put in place by government including electronic verification of public sector workers.<\/p>\n Mr. Terkper who made this known on the Citi Breakfast Show <\/strong>yesterday, Friday, said they have so far been able to identify about 4,000 fake teachers in the educational sector.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”kaDjIaT7RybOJ1DmlzZjpl7WkIAVhY9P”]\u201cToday we are not talking about ghost names. I would hope that we would do a story on ghost names as to why we are not hearing that phenomenon, as to why we are able to identify 4,000 fake teachers at a time. This is because we\u2019ve put concrete measures in place including electronic verification,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n 400 fake teachers picked up<\/strong><\/p>\n It will be recalled that the Ghana Education Service in 2015 began a verification process across the country to flush out all teachers using fake certificates.<\/p>\n About 400 fake teachers<\/strong><\/a><\/span> were subsequently picked up by the Bureau of National Investigations for questioning.<\/p>\n \u2018Fake teachers\u2019 will be punished<\/strong><\/p>\n The Minister of Employment, Haruna Iddrisu earlier this year hinted that government will penalize<\/strong><\/a><\/span> teachers found to be operating with fake documents.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have some revelation of irregularities and fraud bothering on certificates backdating of some of the details. Backdating in particular of date of appointment and year of appointment and all that, has a consequence in computing the compensation of a particular employee. Those determined to have forged certificates and committed other irregularities will face the full rigorous of the law apart from the fact that they will be denied their compensation and their claims,\u201d he added in an interview with Citi News.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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