The Fourth Estate has posted a story of how an Upper East Regional Culture Director collected GHS364,000 from new staff after they were paid unearned salaries by the Controller and Accountant General Department.
How come 38 persons in the Upper East Region were recruited without financial clearance? What sanctions aside from suspension should be meted out to those who planned the fraudulent recruitment and salary payment?
How should the Ghana Audit Service and Internal Audit Agency be encouraged to intensify their work? The entire recruitment procedure was nurtured by the Regional Director without the consent of the newly recruited staff.
Interestingly, she took 1000ghs from each of the newly recruited staff at the time their appointment letters were ready.
When accumulated salaries of 8 months for the newly recruited staff were ready, the regional director collected monies from them. How could she do that?
After the auditors interrogated the fraudulent activities, she reportedly asked each employee to pay GHS2,000 to enable her to bribe the indefatigable auditors from the Ghana Audit Service.
Many Ghanaians have reacted to the revelation as they were surprised how the woman perpetuated her fraudulent acts.
Other Ghanaians revealed that they were not too surprised because the intensity of corruption is currently very high in the country.
What are your thoughts on the ongoing discussion? Why are some government officials extorting monies before recruiting the staff? How can the country grow if corruption thrives in the public sector?
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