Engineers & Planners Company Limited settled arrears owed the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) a day\u00a0before the hearing was to take place at the SSNIT Saturday court on April 29, 2017, following the suit against its\u00a0Chief Executive Officer, Ibrahim Mahama.<\/p>\n
The Public Affairs Director of SSNIT, Eva Amegashie, confirmed this to Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>but said a criminal offence was still pending, with the next hearing scheduled for May 13, 2017.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”wdDtKO5Pf2tcy7QU8zbITrrDWO7HhaXg”]\u201cEngineers and planners’ indebtedness was settled a day before the court hearing on Saturday. They paid on Friday when the court hearing was on Saturday. But the criminal offence is still pending because they were taken to court and it is the court that will decide on the final verdict on Saturday, 13th<\/sup> of May, 2017,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Earlier on, documents sighted by Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0shortly after the SSNIT court action, indicated that, Engineers & Planners Company Limited\u00a0defaulted in the payments, which resulted in SSNIT abrogating a payment plan\u00a0with the company, and imposing penalties on the arrears amounting to GHc 1.322 million.<\/p>\n The payments were supposed to have been made by February 28, 2017.<\/p>\n In the suit against Ibrahim Mahama, SSNIT noted that, his company was per the National Pensions Act of 2008, Act 766, expected to pay social security on behalf of his employees at the end of every month.<\/p>\n But inspections conducted by officers of the Trust into the pay books of Engineers & Planners Company Limited revealed that, between the period of February 2015 to July 2015, June 2016, to August 2016, and October 2016, there were unpaid Social Security contributions amounting to GHc 668,754.75.<\/p>\n