$72 million<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0software project, making some members question the viability of the fund.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”CCgokAGpqB2PdX5CsTMn5mjDXwQRtXYy”]But speaking at a Graphic Business Forum on the pension fund on Tuesday, Mr. Osei Duah said the NPRA must be empowered to do more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe the problem we have is very simple \u2013 the entity that is supposed to regulate SSNIT, the national pension regulatory authority \u00a0is nowhere as powerful as SSNIT. I think all of you will agree with me on that. Until that change, I do not see anything changing. We need to have a situation where it becomes clear that SSNIT reports to the National Pension Regulatory Authority. We need to empower my good friend here [NPRA boss] and give him enough powers to summon the Director General of SSNIT and anybody including their board chairman to his office and query them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The former SIC boss noted that, most people will clamour to be on the board of SSNIT instead of NPRA \u201ceven though that is a higher authority, and that should tell you why we are having the problems we are having. \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cSo my point is that, we need to be a little more interested in what SSNIT is doing, we need to give the NPRA enough investigative powers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\nSSNIT is being investigated by EOCO for blowing $72 million on procuring and installing a software and other hardware systems known as the Operational Business Suite in a bid to digitize the Trust.<\/p>\n
The cost, which was originally $34 million, later ballooned to $66 million and then to $72 million due to maintenance and additional infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The Board Chairman of SSNIT, Kwame Addo Kufuor, in an earlier interview with\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0said about 15 people had appeared before EOCO as witnesses in the matter.<\/p>\n–<\/p>\n
By: Sixtus Dong Ullo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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