KPMG exposes irregularities in gov’t payroll

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Bit 9 years ago

It is a good thing that at long last KPMG has uncovered these irregularities. The next and important task is for this government and future governments to implement the recommendations while from continuous improvement to th ...
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It is a good thing that at long last KPMG has uncovered these irregularities. The next and important task is for this government and future governments to implement the recommendations while from continuous improvement to the system is pursued relentlessly. No politics!!!!
GIVE ME MY BALLOT PAPER 9 years ago

A gov't of thievery looting Ghana into the doldrums.

A gov't of thievery looting Ghana into the doldrums.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AFEDE FILLING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS ABROAD< ASIEDU NKETIA SPREADING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER BRONG AHAFO AND BUYING MANSION IN CALGARY CANADA, HANNA BISSIW ,OYI LITHUR ANITA DISOSO SPREADING MONEY AS IF GHANA HAS NO PROBLEM
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

It was the government of the day that put the KPMG to task to regulate the Government payroll and update her with its findings for appropriate action. So, Mr. scandalous Chronicle, this is no news.

It was the government of the day that put the KPMG to task to regulate the Government payroll and update her with its findings for appropriate action. So, Mr. scandalous Chronicle, this is no news.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

WHO WOULD DIE FOR GHANA WHEN NDC FOOLSOLDIERS RECIEVED SALARIES SIMPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE SERIAL CALLERS? OUR SOLDIERS ARE SLEEPING

WHO WOULD DIE FOR GHANA WHEN NDC FOOLSOLDIERS RECIEVED SALARIES SIMPLE BECAUSE THEY ARE SERIAL CALLERS? OUR SOLDIERS ARE SLEEPING
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-BBCNEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW COULD THEY IF AFRIYIE ANKRA IS STILL UNDER MAHAMA ARMPIT, IF ASIEDU NKETIA A PALM WINE TAPPER IS NOW A MILLIONEER, OKUDJETO , FIIFI KWETEY, OFOSU KWAKYE , OMANE BOAMA, JOHN JINAPOR WH ...
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Author:-BBCNEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW COULD THEY IF AFRIYIE ANKRA IS STILL UNDER MAHAMA ARMPIT, IF ASIEDU NKETIA A PALM WINE TAPPER IS NOW A MILLIONEER, OKUDJETO , FIIFI KWETEY, OFOSU KWAKYE , OMANE BOAMA, JOHN JINAPOR WHO HAS NEVER WORKED IN THEIR LIFE BEFORE ARE ALL MILLIONEERS UNDER THIS MAHAMA GOVT, THEN WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT? WHO WILL DIE FOR GHANA?
Kwaku 9 years ago

Can u imagine. So CAGD asked and paid KPMG for an audit on the payroll system. They were not forced to audit the accounts but did it on their own. Now, the foolish Franklin Cudjoe and his foolish mere intellect friends flaim ...
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Can u imagine. So CAGD asked and paid KPMG for an audit on the payroll system. They were not forced to audit the accounts but did it on their own. Now, the foolish Franklin Cudjoe and his foolish mere intellect friends flaim they've stumbled upon this document and want to go to court. What kind of senselessness is this?

The document belongs to CAGD and u claim u are a superhero and found it and going to court. Going to court for what? Going to court to accuse CAGD of being smart enough to request for their own audit from an international firm? Too many BRIANLESS people being praised as smart guys in our dear country.

The others in OccupyGhana may be smart, but Franklin Cudjoe is a cheap brain idiot who screams of the little things he achieves or comes across. He's excited over trivialities. I wonder if he had Seth Tekpers or Raymond Atugubas resume, what he'd be doing. The smart ones are so quiet u have to dig to find the big schools and achievements they've made.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-SOD....
What does the Mahama NDC gov't means by an Ultra modern Kumasi central market? What comparable ultra modern market in developed countries of the world should Ghanaians compare this Ultra modern Kumasi centra ...
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Author:-SOD....
What does the Mahama NDC gov't means by an Ultra modern Kumasi central market? What comparable ultra modern market in developed countries of the world should Ghanaians compare this Ultra modern Kumasi central market?
We have been in this country when the uncompleted extension of the runway of Kumasi Regional Airport has been described by the Mahama NDC gov't as an ultra modern international airport comparable to any international airport in the US, Germany, France, UK, Holland, China, Hong Kong, etc, etc. So what does the Mahama NDC gov't means by an ultra modern Kumasi central market because Ghanaians have had it with mediocre leadership and propaganda.
AMB 9 years ago

Pls note that the audit was commissioned by the CAGD. Its to enable government address the problem of payroll management. The problem has been there. It did not start during the NPP regime only.

Pls note that the audit was commissioned by the CAGD. Its to enable government address the problem of payroll management. The problem has been there. It did not start during the NPP regime only.
Kofi 9 years ago

Every loop-hole is one too many!

Every loop-hole is one too many!
SIMON 9 years ago

IT TAKING TOO LONG AND A LOT OF TALK IT ABOUT TIME CHANGES ARE MADE. HOW DO YOU EXPECT ECONOMY TO SUCCESSED WITH HOLES IN COUNTRY'S PURSE. POLITICIANS ARE ELECTED TO TAKE CARE OF THE NATIONS PURSE NOT TO WASTE OR ALLOW IT BE ...
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IT TAKING TOO LONG AND A LOT OF TALK IT ABOUT TIME CHANGES ARE MADE. HOW DO YOU EXPECT ECONOMY TO SUCCESSED WITH HOLES IN COUNTRY'S PURSE. POLITICIANS ARE ELECTED TO TAKE CARE OF THE NATIONS PURSE NOT TO WASTE OR ALLOW IT BE DRAIN BY THEIR OWN THIEVES AND OTHERS
OWEN,NEW YORK. 9 years ago

AFARI GYAN MUST ALLOW THE VOTERS REGISTER TO BE CLEANED BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTIONS THROW THE COUNTRY INTO FLAMES.ANY BAD OMEN WILL BE PUT AT THE DOOR MOUTH OF AFARI GYAN AND HE WILL SURELY COMMIT SUICIDE JUST LIKE MR.OVIE WHI ...
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AFARI GYAN MUST ALLOW THE VOTERS REGISTER TO BE CLEANED BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTIONS THROW THE COUNTRY INTO FLAMES.ANY BAD OMEN WILL BE PUT AT THE DOOR MOUTH OF AFARI GYAN AND HE WILL SURELY COMMIT SUICIDE JUST LIKE MR.OVIE WHISKEY OF NIGERIA WHO KILLED HIMSELF AFTER HIS FRAUDULENT CONDUCTION OF ELECTION IN NIGERIA IN THE 70's -80's.
sam 9 years ago

This news is very very late. Ghanaian journalists are too lazy. They give us only dead news. The KPMG audit was conducted long ago and its recommendations being implemented already. There ghost names being reduced; sure not c ...
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This news is very very late. Ghanaian journalists are too lazy. They give us only dead news. The KPMG audit was conducted long ago and its recommendations being implemented already. There ghost names being reduced; sure not complete yet. Please, Journalist try to a bit more proactive.
yanks 9 years ago

for no work done

for no work done
yanks 9 years ago

for no work done

for no work done
yanks 9 years ago

for no work done

for no work done
yanks 9 years ago

for no work done

for no work done
yanks 9 years ago

for no work done

for no work done
Hon Amadu Adamu in Amantin Brong Ahaf 9 years ago

For the advantage of Ghana and her people, government must screen out all incompetent workers in CAGD to save future embarrassment. This is too big a humiliation to us.

For the advantage of Ghana and her people, government must screen out all incompetent workers in CAGD to save future embarrassment. This is too big a humiliation to us.
Bature 9 years ago

This has nothing to do you NDC or NPP

This has nothing to do you NDC or NPP
OB LONDON 9 years ago

UPON ALL THE NEGATIVE, MINUS, PLUS AND ZERO (-*+×÷) ACCOUNT NUMBERS IN THE PAY ROLL SYSTEM TWUM BOAFO WANT FRANKLIN CUDJOE TO BE QUIET
WHAT KIND OF HUMAN BEING YOU ARE TWUM. DO YOU REASON AT ALL DO YOU SLEEP ON A PILLOW ...
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UPON ALL THE NEGATIVE, MINUS, PLUS AND ZERO (-*+×÷) ACCOUNT NUMBERS IN THE PAY ROLL SYSTEM TWUM BOAFO WANT FRANKLIN CUDJOE TO BE QUIET
WHAT KIND OF HUMAN BEING YOU ARE TWUM. DO YOU REASON AT ALL DO YOU SLEEP ON A PILLOW OR DO YOU SLEEP ON A SLATE.? YOU PEOPLE ARE ENJOING FROM THE PAY ROLL SO YOU WANT TO BRUSH OFF THE TRUTH COMING OUT FROM THE CONTROLLER AND ACCOUNTANT GENERAL DEPARTMENT.
TWUM BOAFO (WO Y3 AKOKO) BUT NOT HUMAN BEING. BULL LIKE YOU TWUM.
Abusana 9 years ago

For all you know the Free Zones Board payroll is full of ghost names of foot soldiers. This chap is so loud mouth you don't know what he does. Another woody-headed boot-licker has the audacity to be challenging IMANI and Occu ...
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For all you know the Free Zones Board payroll is full of ghost names of foot soldiers. This chap is so loud mouth you don't know what he does. Another woody-headed boot-licker has the audacity to be challenging IMANI and OccupyGhana. It is sad that Ghana has nutured such characters, unexemplary, to be heads of institutions.The CAGD is full of theives, aided of course by the master thieves, the politicians.
MAWULI 9 years ago

THIS IS NOT NEWS. ASK HON OPAMTHIS BROWN. HE HAD HIS ILL GOTTEN MONEY FROM SUCH PRACTICES OTHERWISE HOW DID HE BECOME RICH OVERNIGHT? HE CAN REVEAL ALL THE SECRETS TO SAVE THE COUNTRY. HE IS SEATING IN PARLIAMENT AFTER CHEATI ...
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THIS IS NOT NEWS. ASK HON OPAMTHIS BROWN. HE HAD HIS ILL GOTTEN MONEY FROM SUCH PRACTICES OTHERWISE HOW DID HE BECOME RICH OVERNIGHT? HE CAN REVEAL ALL THE SECRETS TO SAVE THE COUNTRY. HE IS SEATING IN PARLIAMENT AFTER CHEATING THE COUNTRY.
Yaw 9 years ago

Who is OPAM tha you are talking about? another NDC Corrupt personalility?

Who is OPAM tha you are talking about? another NDC Corrupt personalility?
OPPONG 9 years ago

NDC paa!

NDC paa!
United Ghana 9 years ago

Why the delay in implementing recommendations? What's been done to remove these bogus accounts? Why haven't there been any arrests or prosecutions yet?

Why the delay in implementing recommendations? What's been done to remove these bogus accounts? Why haven't there been any arrests or prosecutions yet?
MENSAH-AGOVE 9 years ago

I THINK MAHAMAH IS GOING TO SET COMMITTE BEFORE HE CAN MAKE ANY ARREST.EVEN IF SUPREME COURT FINDS THEM GUILTY AND ORDER THEM TO PAY WHAT THEY HAVE SQUADERED.THE SCHOOL BOYS WILL ADVISE THE PRESIDENT TO SET A COMMITTE TO KNOW ...
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I THINK MAHAMAH IS GOING TO SET COMMITTE BEFORE HE CAN MAKE ANY ARREST.EVEN IF SUPREME COURT FINDS THEM GUILTY AND ORDER THEM TO PAY WHAT THEY HAVE SQUADERED.THE SCHOOL BOYS WILL ADVISE THE PRESIDENT TO SET A COMMITTE TO KNOW WHAT POLITICAL PARTIES THE CULPRITS BELONG TO,DON'T ASK WHY BECAUSE WOYOME'S CASE IS NUMBER ONE.IS THIS MAHAMAH'S BETTER OR BITTER GHANA?.
AKONFEM MAHAMA 9 years ago

Removing ghost names is not rockect science. But with fool at officialdom and criminals who rule the country in the name of guinea fowls. , the looting will go on.

Removing ghost names is not rockect science. But with fool at officialdom and criminals who rule the country in the name of guinea fowls. , the looting will go on.
osu clottey 9 years ago

Just clean out those names,most are foot soldiers of NPP and NDC,they are aware of what is happening

Just clean out those names,most are foot soldiers of NPP and NDC,they are aware of what is happening
Ibn Abudu @CANADASHEABUTTER(GHUWR) 9 years ago

My good friend why didn't you detect this earlier on ? rather than wait to be exposed by KPMG ?

My good friend why didn't you detect this earlier on ? rather than wait to be exposed by KPMG ?
Koo Nimo 9 years ago

Could someone let me know how many people on the government pay roll have paid domestic servants, drivers, garden boys and watchmen. Thanks

Could someone let me know how many people on the government pay roll have paid domestic servants, drivers, garden boys and watchmen. Thanks
Concerned 9 years ago

Whilst a lot of the problems described can simply be administrative errors, the question still remains as to why past internal and external auditors haven't picked it up. I have a cousin who was transferred to some remote pa ...
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Whilst a lot of the problems described can simply be administrative errors, the question still remains as to why past internal and external auditors haven't picked it up. I have a cousin who was transferred to some remote part of the country because he tried to do his job properly.
Proud Ghana Man 9 years ago

Shouldnt we be happy that the CAGD commissioned this Indepedent system audit to detect issues with the system design? If ther is no evidence that the CAGD is fixing these erros then we hace cause to be concerned. If you have ...
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Shouldnt we be happy that the CAGD commissioned this Indepedent system audit to detect issues with the system design? If ther is no evidence that the CAGD is fixing these erros then we hace cause to be concerned. If you have ever been involved in ERP design, data migration and cut-over, integration with other systems and processes you wouldn't be surprised at all at what is reported here. The audit report actually gives a possible source of these issues i.e indeadequate system infractustructure at some rural banks. Why do we politicize everything in this country? We don't know when the system was designed, who those names associated with the incorrect account numbers are etc so should we not support institutions trying to fix the problems but rather rooting against them?
SARPONG 9 years ago

You are the one who is uninformed. Do you know when this audit report given to the Accountant General? 2012 that when this report was given to the CAGD.

In September 2014, more than two years after the CAGD got this report ...
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You are the one who is uninformed. Do you know when this audit report given to the Accountant General? 2012 that when this report was given to the CAGD.

In September 2014, more than two years after the CAGD got this report, the problem was still not addressed and that is why European union, Britain, USA and other developmental partners of Ghana refused to release their monetary support to Ghana and you are telling us that we should be happy because the CAGD commissioned this report.

Why should we be happy? Because CAGD wasted our money by paying KPMG to issue this report they have no intention of implementing. Typical of this administration.
Kwaku 9 years ago

So CAGD asked and paid KPMG for an audit on the payroll system. They were not forced to audit the accounts but did it on their own. Now, the foolish Franklin Cudjoe and his foolish mere intellect friends flaim they've stumble ...
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So CAGD asked and paid KPMG for an audit on the payroll system. They were not forced to audit the accounts but did it on their own. Now, the foolish Franklin Cudjoe and his foolish mere intellect friends flaim they've stumbled upon this document and want to go to court. What kind of senselessness is this?

The document belongs to CAGD and u claim u are a superhero and found it and going to court. Going to court for what? Going to court to accuse CAGD of being smart enough to request for their own audit from an international firm? Too many BRIANLESS people being praised as smart guys in our dear country.

The others in OccupyGhana may be smart, but Franklin Cudjoe is a cheap brain idiot who screams of the little things he achieves or comes across. He's excited over trivialities. I wonder if he had Seth Tekpers or Raymond Atugubas resume, what he'd be doing. The smart ones are so quiet u have to dig to find the big schools and achievements they've made.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

The current government payroll system must be scrapped and replaced by an electronic initiated system which starts with a worthwhile national badge/ID system.
Our national ID system is premised on the ideals that people who ...
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The current government payroll system must be scrapped and replaced by an electronic initiated system which starts with a worthwhile national badge/ID system.
Our national ID system is premised on the ideals that people who obtain national ID's are alive, verified and authenticated prior to ID issuance. If the so-called national ID carried a unique number and an encrypted pieces of information that can be read by both card reader systems, by door access and intrusion systems as well as electronic time card systems then all government employees will have to use their respective time clock systems to prove attendance. They must be mandated for used at banks for bank transactions relative to use of their payroll bank accounts. People must be alive and authentic to meet the work attendance required to receive monthly government paycheck. Bankers must verify and authenticate the picture National ID before the release of funds of any electronic payroll deposited bank account. This process will solve the abuse at the National Service secretariat and any government office where people are paid for their presumed labor.
OKOE 9 years ago

IS THE INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANTS READING THIS REPORT AND WHAT WILL THEY DO ABOUT IT? WHERE IS THE INTEGRITY OF THE ACCOUNTANT? ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM OR PART OF THE CORRUPTION IN THE NATION. IT IS A DISGRACE AND WHAT WILL ...
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IS THE INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANTS READING THIS REPORT AND WHAT WILL THEY DO ABOUT IT? WHERE IS THE INTEGRITY OF THE ACCOUNTANT? ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM OR PART OF THE CORRUPTION IN THE NATION. IT IS A DISGRACE AND WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING ABOUT THIS REPORT AS AN INSTITUTION?
Kay 9 years ago

Cancel ALL accounts and ask employees to reapply. That is one way to flush out the system.

Cancel ALL accounts and ask employees to reapply. That is one way to flush out the system.
Steve 9 years ago

Excellent Idea. Reset the entire process with full transparency.

Excellent Idea. Reset the entire process with full transparency.
Obed Adore 9 years ago

And the government knows all about this problem why can't they clean it up? This is the biggest question yet to be answered.
The saddest one was when the pornographic Northern Ghana young man resident in Canada was found to ...
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And the government knows all about this problem why can't they clean it up? This is the biggest question yet to be answered.
The saddest one was when the pornographic Northern Ghana young man resident in Canada was found to be on the teachers payroll back home in northern Ghana, as revealed by the press,, Nothing was done about it for the next three months or more. He continued to be paid and the mother continually collected his pay from the bank with ease. The funny thing was that his guy had never been a teacher in any government school, never stepped in any classroom in the north, but continued to be paid for years by the government. Why are the government agencies not that serious wit such white colour crime?
agya 9 years ago

NDC …my God

NDC …my God
Abua 9 years ago

This corruption started with NPP. GCB, agric bank and all rural banks should be investigated.

When people resign from Government sector they continue to take their salaries for a year or two

This corruption started with NPP. GCB, agric bank and all rural banks should be investigated.

When people resign from Government sector they continue to take their salaries for a year or two
Karim 9 years ago

The skin of the blackman is black so his mind is also black. Black people always think about how they can cheat their fellow blackman. When they do that they call themselves wisemen as depicted in their spider stories.. Black ...
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The skin of the blackman is black so his mind is also black. Black people always think about how they can cheat their fellow blackman. When they do that they call themselves wisemen as depicted in their spider stories.. Black people only learn sense when they live in whitemans country for 20 years.
Kelton 9 years ago

IF this true,then MAHAMA is NOT at all fighting the corruption....and Mr.AMIDU Mr.Cudjoe must be PRAISED for exposing that POWERFUL OFFICE of corruption.

IF this true,then MAHAMA is NOT at all fighting the corruption....and Mr.AMIDU Mr.Cudjoe must be PRAISED for exposing that POWERFUL OFFICE of corruption.
Samansaman 9 years ago

THEY ARE ALL THEIVES and we better close down that office.

THEY ARE ALL THEIVES and we better close down that office.
Joe 9 years ago

I want NDC and its serial callers to read this report before they start insulting the IMANI director, Frank Cudjoe. Then after they have read it let them deny it. Time will tell.

I want NDC and its serial callers to read this report before they start insulting the IMANI director, Frank Cudjoe. Then after they have read it let them deny it. Time will tell.
ELECTRO CUTE 9 years ago

74% FOR PAYROLL AND 26% FOR DEVELOPMENT
AT THIS RATE GHANA WILL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS HOLE. NO DOUBT WE NEED THE EU TO BAIL US OUT EACH TIME. GHANA IS A FAILED STATE

74% FOR PAYROLL AND 26% FOR DEVELOPMENT
AT THIS RATE GHANA WILL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS HOLE. NO DOUBT WE NEED THE EU TO BAIL US OUT EACH TIME. GHANA IS A FAILED STATE

KPMG exposes irregularities in gov’t payroll

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