.... WE TOLD YOU SO, NMC.
.... NOW RETRACT AND APOLOGISE
A payrolls audit of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) undertaken by the Auditor General has confirmed a monumental fraud perpetrated by management of the organization as reported by the statesman last year, only to end up being reprimanded by the National Media Commission (NMC)
Auditor-General investigations into GNA books have established multiple fraud and corruption, as workers never received salary increment. The paper first broke the story in January 22, 2002. Staffs of the Agency are relatively among the least paid in the country.
The story accused GNA Management of corrupt practices by deliberately slashing workers’ salaries.
THE STATESMAN was forced to retract the story by NMC following GNA’s General Manager Robert Kafui’s complaint.
The Auditor-General has now confirmed the story and has ordered GNA management to pay over ?92 million illegally deducted from staff salaries to the affected workers, including many journalists, with Kafui Johnson officially accepting responsibility.
He nevertheless still remain at post in a typical Ghanaian fashion where resignations are near as difficult to expect like drawing blood from stone.
