Ghost workers at Korle-Bu, heads must roll

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• Li 12 years ago

  Our leaders have failed us and there is no hope for us and posterity.God save Ghana.

  Our leaders have failed us and there is no hope for us and posterity.God save Ghana.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

  Kofi,
  
  Well done for devoting your time to write this. Obviously, those in charge of Ghana "no get sense" and I doubt if they'd follow these sane measures you outlined even if thrust into their wide noses and ears! Practica ...
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  Kofi,
  
  Well done for devoting your time to write this. Obviously, those in charge of Ghana "no get sense" and I doubt if they'd follow these sane measures you outlined even if thrust into their wide noses and ears! Practically all are compromised, ether through acts of omission or commission.
  
  As you observed, the problem of ghost workers extend to the very top, some of whom share the loot. I recollect how my dad was shunted from the Accounts Dept to become the Personnel Manager in one state outfit in the 1970s because he was causing too much trouble with his strict "My father did not born me a thief" world view, only for him to discover the source of the over-bloated payroll! Well, he went to work with a big scissors cutting names out which alarmed the powers-that-be that he was promptly recalled to the Accounts Dept.
  
  A pity I was the one responsible for burning a lot of our father's correspondences, after reading them, of course; otherwise I'd have written a mind blowing biography about him, from before indep., through the CPP years to the 1970s.
  
  We have thieves and thiefettes ruling and managing Ghana. Period!
  
  Andy-K

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• Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

  There have not been any serious attempts by any past government to solve the issues of ghost employees because each failed to link deficit spending with mismanagement. Take NYEP now called GYEEDA for example. I was privy to k ...
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  There have not been any serious attempts by any past government to solve the issues of ghost employees because each failed to link deficit spending with mismanagement. Take NYEP now called GYEEDA for example. I was privy to know someone who introduced the concept of electronic badge/ID card that would also serve as a time card swipe for employee attendance records some 2 years ago but NYEP leaders chose a meaningless ID badge system from political cronies living in the UK. In the meantime people on government payroll do not show up for work or the employee listings are dotted with ghost employees. The government of Ghana through its various ministries and us all will fail to solve the problems of the nation unless we become a nation of forward looking people with wisdom, ideas and ideals.

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• LONTO-BOY 12 years ago

  MASSA KOFI, your sentiment is understandable but in Ghana, the concept of accountability is dead! In fact, this issue of "Ghost names on pay roll" is a criminal enterprise protected by multiple of Government departments in bo ...
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  MASSA KOFI, your sentiment is understandable but in Ghana, the concept of accountability is dead! In fact, this issue of "Ghost names on pay roll" is a criminal enterprise protected by multiple of Government departments in both the civil and public sectors. How difficult is it to do a headcount to tackle this without the computerisation of the country's payroll?

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• Benash 12 years ago

  Well said Kofi Ata. You've said it all and you even came up with real solutions. It's very disappointing and disgusting that in this modern age such things still goes on in our country.
  What's actually funny and questionable ...
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  Well said Kofi Ata. You've said it all and you even came up with real solutions. It's very disappointing and disgusting that in this modern age such things still goes on in our country.
  What's actually funny and questionable is that if you visit any private company and ask for their payroll I bet you that you will not find any "ghost name" on that company's payroll. So, how come this is something "normal" in the public sector and it has been like for ages. Like I say always, there are no leaders in Ghana period, be it sector minister, a head teacher, departmental head of any public institution.

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• KOFI SEAMAN 12 years ago

  Sound advise there...

  Sound advise there...

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• Jnfak 12 years ago

  This is the kind of analysis I believed in. This is a well written article. This is the way the president must think and act if actually he's committed fighting corruption. If all our ministers and head of institutions would ...
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  This is the kind of analysis I believed in. This is a well written article. This is the way the president must think and act if actually he's committed fighting corruption. If all our ministers and head of institutions would think like this Ghana will be one of the rich countries in the world and Ghanaians will stop travelling to other countries for greener pastures. My brother you're hired and you need to work in the new set up ministry of corruption. Well done.get in touch brother, May God bless you for this article. Well done

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• JUSTICE 12 years ago

  ALL STATES INSTITUTIONS SHOULD BE COMPUTERIZED. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS.GOVERNMENT SHOULD INVESTIGATE AND ARREST THOSE WHO ARE KILLING GHANA SOFTLY.

  ALL STATES INSTITUTIONS SHOULD BE COMPUTERIZED. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS.GOVERNMENT SHOULD INVESTIGATE AND ARREST THOSE WHO ARE KILLING GHANA SOFTLY.

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• Ebo Mends, New York 12 years ago

  I read articles like this and all I can do is shake my head. How can we be dealing with this problem when it should not be a problem at all in the first place. These acts of institutional/public sector corruption continue be ...
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  I read articles like this and all I can do is shake my head. How can we be dealing with this problem when it should not be a problem at all in the first place. These acts of institutional/public sector corruption continue because entrenched interest don't just want to chnage the way we run our institutions and the payment systems. Second, no one suffers any consequences for such acts as Kofi was calling for. We have all these state agencies, like the ECOCO or whatever they call it, the BNI and others but no one, I mean no gets held accountable. These state agencies get intertwined with the political system instead of being independent to pursue whoever commits a crime without being accused of a political witch-hunt. We are really in deep trouble, countrymen. This nonsense of making everything NPP and NDC is not helping us.
  
  If even a few of Kofi's suggestions are implemented our situation will be different.

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• Lorgo Ligri 12 years ago

  There is no way the bosses don't know about these ghost workers. Can't a mother tell how many children live in her household? Shoots, the culpits involved in these scams I'm 90% sure are the bosses themselves, that's why they ...
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  There is no way the bosses don't know about these ghost workers. Can't a mother tell how many children live in her household? Shoots, the culpits involved in these scams I'm 90% sure are the bosses themselves, that's why they are not taking any action to rectify the problem. The slogan is, " everybody chop chop so why should I forgo mine? Master na chop, so boy gonna chop too. You talk, I talk. So way thing you go do? " This is what the President should be stopping instead of cutting their pay checks. This is a gold mine for the state to dip into.

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• Osofo 12 years ago

  Ghost workers are everywhere. I wonder how their checks are cashed. Moron nation.

  Ghost workers are everywhere. I wonder how their checks are cashed. Moron nation.

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 12 years ago

  My brother, reading such reports from Ghana makes me sad. I do remember the rot at K'Bu from the PNDC days when I inaugurated the Workers Defence Committee with the late Captain Courage Quarshiega. Those days, we acted to sto ...
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  My brother, reading such reports from Ghana makes me sad. I do remember the rot at K'Bu from the PNDC days when I inaugurated the Workers Defence Committee with the late Captain Courage Quarshiega. Those days, we acted to stop the rot and those responsible were punished but this time it's free all.
  
  A friend of mine in Belgium says he had to stop visiting Ghanaweb because the reports on Ghana are health risks as they could give him high blood pressure. I think he is absolutely right. I was mad when I read the Graphic report because of the lack of action to at least, to stop the rot even if they are not interested in finding out who are responsible.

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