{"id":403787,"date":"2018-02-23T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403787"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T12:25:18","slug":"eoco-ends-probe-into-72m-ssnit-software-scandal-heads-to-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/eoco-ends-probe-into-72m-ssnit-software-scandal-heads-to-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"EOCO ends probe into $72m SSNIT software scandal, heads to roll"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Economic and Organized Crimes Office [EOCO], has completed its investigations into the controversial $72 million digitization project<\/strong><\/a><\/span> executed by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).<\/p>\n According to the Acting Chief Executive Officer of EOCO, ACP K. K. Amoah, the docket has been forwarded to the Attorney-General for scrutiny and advice.<\/p>\n EOCO started investigating SSNIT in August 2017 after it emerged that the Trust had injected $72 million on the\u00a0 procurement and installation of a software and other hardware systems known as the Operational Business Suite (OBS) to digitize SSNIT’s operations.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”DYxYygwSObrsuVhPhEaA9FPkcH7ERnx5″]The Trust had been widely lambasted over the project which is reportedly not fully functional.<\/p>\n The project included the installation of a software to ensure that its headquarters receives data directly from all of its offices.<\/p>\n Speaking to Accra based Joy FM today [Friday], February 23, 2018, Acting Chief Executive Officer of EOCO, ACP K. K. Amoah, said the \u201cAttorney-General [Gloria Akuffo] is studying the docket and you will soon hear from her office\u201d<\/p>\n Although he failed to give further details, ACP Amoah said \u201c\u2026some officers are being held responsible.”<\/p>\n 15 witnesses appeared before EOCO<\/strong><\/p>\n The Board Chairman of SSNIT, Kwame Addo Kufuor, in an earlier interview with Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0in August 2017<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0confirmed that about 15 people appeared before EOCO as witnesses in the matter.<\/p>\n SSNIT also contracted PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct an audit into the contract.<\/p>\n In a 4-point statement released in 2017, \u201cSSNIT said it expects the names of the people associated with the I.T (OBS) contracts to be released in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n SSNIT further assured that it will publish findings from the audit by PricewaterhouoesCoopers into the matter.<\/p>\n Fake MIS boss<\/strong><\/p>\n Amidst the controversy, it emerged that the General Manager of MIS at SSNIT, Caleb Afaglo, who was appointed to the position in 2015, did not hold the right qualifications.<\/p>\n He was interdicted by the management of the Trust over suspicions that his Bachelors\u2019, Masters\u2019 and Doctorate degrees were fake<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n EOCO conducted raids in his house, seized his passport and froze his bank account to commence investigations into his qualifications.<\/p>\n