The Upper West Branch of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) Ghana has threatened legal action against the Ministry of Finance and Controller and Accountant General’s Department for withholding salaries of some of its members.

The Association’s Chair Alhassan Abdul Salifu is livid, and has insisted the decision is harsh.

“We can bus affected people to Accra for the Accountant General to see that they’re not ghosts but active public servants.”

This comes on the heels of an ongoing exercise by the Department to purge Government’s payroll of ghost names.

The exercise took retroactive effect April 2015.

The government is struggling to tame a frustrated mechanized payroll system, as its wage bill keeps increasing.