Ghost names on Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s payroll

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Abongo soldier 8 years ago

We have a lot in the Ghana Armforces, about 500 soldiers went on awool but their salaries are still coming. Who's pocket is tht money going to . Please the Auditor general should check on tht.

We have a lot in the Ghana Armforces, about 500 soldiers went on awool but their salaries are still coming. Who's pocket is tht money going to . Please the Auditor general should check on tht.
Mike frm Ho. 8 years ago

Do we have leaders in this country? This is happening all over the place but nobody is sent to the prison. We don't even see their pictures PUBLICLY to serve as a warning to others. Do we have leaders? Ghana is going down bec ...
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Do we have leaders in this country? This is happening all over the place but nobody is sent to the prison. We don't even see their pictures PUBLICLY to serve as a warning to others. Do we have leaders? Ghana is going down because of the activities of these few people but nobody cares. What are the Sector Ministers doing?
They Say They Say 8 years ago

Change can only come from the top. All it takes is one man at the top with vision, strength and discipline to initiate change of the system. Change is infectious. Once people taste your ruthlessness, they will whip themselves ...
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Change can only come from the top. All it takes is one man at the top with vision, strength and discipline to initiate change of the system. Change is infectious. Once people taste your ruthlessness, they will whip themselves in line. I keep asking the same question why Ghana hasn't built enough prisons to match up its population growth and growth in crime. How do develop with so much crime going on? It's like travelling on the Tema motorway at 10 miles/hour whilst everyone else is going 70 miles/hour.
OLD SOLDIER 8 years ago

WHY DID MAHAMA REFUSE THE CHIMPAZEES IN 1998?
Author:-MR OBJECTIVE....
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ONE NIGERIAN TERRORIST PASSED THROUH YOUR BIG-EYES AT KOTOKA AIRPORT,in attempt to bomb a foriegn plane;and only to be arrested insi ...
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WHY DID MAHAMA REFUSE THE CHIMPAZEES IN 1998?
Author:-MR OBJECTIVE....
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ONE NIGERIAN TERRORIST PASSED THROUH YOUR BIG-EYES AT KOTOKA AIRPORT,in attempt to bomb a foriegn plane;and only to be arrested inside the plane?WASN'T IT YOUR TIME WHEN drugs passed through the Airport and arrested at Heathrow Airport?THE ONLY SECURITY WORK YOU DID,WAS TO ARREST POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
Bongo Bongo 8 years ago

Mahama's government is dealing with these among other things but other people are SABOTAGING. You are being used as stooges.Do they know who you are NPP will not reverse whatever situation at the click of their fingers and i ...
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Mahama's government is dealing with these among other things but other people are SABOTAGING. You are being used as stooges.Do they know who you are NPP will not reverse whatever situation at the click of their fingers and it coming into power.It is not the first time this is part of the Ghanaian make up regardless of who is in power. All of you people be prepared to pay taxes to help the government. The countries who you all look up to and compare Ghana to, have systems in place for tax collection to pay for services. There is a culture embedded within some Ghanaian people do not want to pay for services but want to benefit. These people are exposed when they arrive overseas. They do not want to pay even the room they rent because they never paid rent,utility bills etc in Ghana. In the developed countries all SERVICES are paid for through taxes and more taxes even those on benefits. The current government is on COURSE. Do not allow the saboteur to misinform or misguide you. Check with your relatives friends, pen-pals and you will be told. STOP THE PHDs(pull him down) for goodness sake. Demonstrate instead that you will pay increase taxes not about falsehood.
alfa-alfa 8 years ago

As reported: "That her outfit has put in place measures to track the beneficiaries in order to recoup the monies and pay back into government chest."

Madam Dr. Pinamang Appau, this is not an appropriate answer! This is exa ...
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As reported: "That her outfit has put in place measures to track the beneficiaries in order to recoup the monies and pay back into government chest."

Madam Dr. Pinamang Appau, this is not an appropriate answer! This is exactly what the Auditor-General's report queried you to do. You cannot repeat those same words as your answer. Please say exactly what have been done with those scoundrels in the pay office who made those payments to the 'ghosts'. Don't they know to whom they dished out the money? Are there no Attendance Registers to which your Accounting Department would refer to ensure that those to whom the money was being paid actually earned it? This is not the first instance of spurious names on the payroll. Are there no checks and balances in the system to ensure that those nincompoops in the accounting office are not feeding fat on the peoples' money? Thank you for your services.

Your response could have disclosed, at least, that a bunch of the perpetrators have been handed over to the police for investigation.

Your substantive role of being the head of the Hospital, carries a supplementary responsibility of dele- gating supervisor in the chain of command to invigilate and report back to you as the one ultimately answerable.
Frank Ben 8 years ago

PAC is pretending to be working. How can you know the amount collected without knowing the number of people who collected it? Just collecting the money to government chest will encourage more ghosts into the system.

PAC is pretending to be working. How can you know the amount collected without knowing the number of people who collected it? Just collecting the money to government chest will encourage more ghosts into the system.
Joe Turkey 8 years ago

I don't condone any type of thievery but as for this one, the thief John Mahama can find it under his bed.

I don't condone any type of thievery but as for this one, the thief John Mahama can find it under his bed.
Joe 8 years ago

You are just a big fool.Stop exposing your foolishness and stupidity.The Ghanaweb is not there for such silly comments.Donkey!!!

You are just a big fool.Stop exposing your foolishness and stupidity.The Ghanaweb is not there for such silly comments.Donkey!!!
Ali Mahama 8 years ago

This is why Ghanaians are called upon to pay killer Taxes every year yet somebody often tells us he is the best Corruption Fighter Nana Beba

This is why Ghanaians are called upon to pay killer Taxes every year yet somebody often tells us he is the best Corruption Fighter Nana Beba
Justice man 8 years ago

GHANA ARMED FORCES IS THE MOST CORRUPTED INSTITUTION IN GHANA HERE. THE GREEDY UNSCRUPULOUS STUPID LEADERS ARE CRIMINALS TO THE STATE. THEY HAVE TO BE AUDIT VERY SCRUTINY

GHANA ARMED FORCES IS THE MOST CORRUPTED INSTITUTION IN GHANA HERE. THE GREEDY UNSCRUPULOUS STUPID LEADERS ARE CRIMINALS TO THE STATE. THEY HAVE TO BE AUDIT VERY SCRUTINY
Alhassan Iddridu 8 years ago

That is due to somebodies negligence.The person responsible must pay the monies.

That is due to somebodies negligence.The person responsible must pay the monies.
Osei Mensah 8 years ago

Pls ur Excellency Mr President let dem check on e Ghana arm forces n it will shock u, I hv more information to wat am saying but r right source to leake it is my problem now, who to trust.

Pls ur Excellency Mr President let dem check on e Ghana arm forces n it will shock u, I hv more information to wat am saying but r right source to leake it is my problem now, who to trust.
Osei Mensah 8 years ago

Pls ur Excellency Mr President let dem check on e Ghana arm forces n it will shock u, I hv more information to wat am saying but r right source to leake it is my problem nowPls ur Excellency Mr President let dem check on e Gh ...
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Pls ur Excellency Mr President let dem check on e Ghana arm forces n it will shock u, I hv more information to wat am saying but r right source to leake it is my problem nowPls ur Excellency Mr President let dem check on e Ghana arm forces n it will shock u, I hv more information to wat am saying but e right source to leake it is my problem now, who to trust now.
mahama is my dad 8 years ago

they are everywhere even the voter registar

they are everywhere even the voter registar
HEALTH SECTOR 8 years ago

Until measures are taken to completely revamp the health sector organized looting and sharing can never be abated.The chain of corruption in the health sector runs from the very top to the buttom.There is a huge crime syndica ...
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Until measures are taken to completely revamp the health sector organized looting and sharing can never be abated.The chain of corruption in the health sector runs from the very top to the buttom.There is a huge crime syndicate in the health sector involving high profile civil servants who superintend over the rot.The evidence to this is what happened at the PAC hearing to the extent of over 10 million Ghana Cedis lost through illicit procurement.Even a baby born today will know such major deals as procurement of vehicles and auctioning cannot be without the knowledge of the Director General Ebenezah Appiah Denkyira yet he pretended innocent.Even how a fake service personnel can be involved in such high profile transactions without the knowledge of a top management person raises eyebrows.The GHS is now a hub of family and friends in which unskilled professionals including illiterates and semi-literates are roped in by the hierarchy to be used as conduits to loot and divert funds.These people whose survival is directly depended on top officials are usually sycophants and the loyal informants who report people to be quickly axed by the hierarchy of the GHS to maintain the sanctity of the stinging corruption in that organization.Finance officers(accountants),procurement officers,transport officers,estate officers ,administrators and Directors in districts and regions are usually loyalists linked to the hierarchy of GHS at headquarters in an organized crime syndicate that makes organize looting of money and logistics under cover relatively easy.The sophisticated nature of the corruption machinery in the health sector involving very top technocrats both at the GHS and the Health Ministry who have been there for decades and know the terrain well will be extremely difficult to break.The vigilance of these white collar criminals in hastily victimizing genuine workers oppose to the rot in the GHS have created a culture of silence and fear in the midst of naked corruption known to all and sundry.If Appiah Denkyira,the DG of GHS can connive to dubiously and falsely implicate colleague doctors with a mental illness and use that as basis to dismiss them to cover stinging corruption in Effia Nkwanta hospital that was needlessly killing patients,then it is obvious who is superintending over the rot in the service.He dismissed the doctors vehemently opposed to the stinging corruption in Effia Nkwanta in less than one month in post clearly indicating the caliber of people we have as technocrats in key position of responsibility.The doctors are currently fighting their cases in the Human Rights Court with everything done with the help of the AG department to suppress and destroy their case in favour of Appiah Denkyira and his cohorts.What the PAC is seeing is just the tip of the iceberg as the GHS is collapsing under massive corruption superintendent by very corrupt and irresponsible management just interested in how they can outwit the system to illegally amass wealth.
kwam 8 years ago

We have Doctors and Nurses who always on strike because of issues with the govt, they supretend over corrupt practises in the various hospital. It time to also ensure there is accountability in the facilities

We have Doctors and Nurses who always on strike because of issues with the govt, they supretend over corrupt practises in the various hospital. It time to also ensure there is accountability in the facilities
Sam Walker 8 years ago

Thts Gh can go on thiefs n crocks

Thts Gh can go on thiefs n crocks
The Truth 8 years ago

Ghana is a failed state, a banana republic. This is a country that any fool can take as much money as he can for himself. If it is found out, the worst punishment is to tell him to pay it back, and nobody cares if the money i ...
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Ghana is a failed state, a banana republic. This is a country that any fool can take as much money as he can for himself. If it is found out, the worst punishment is to tell him to pay it back, and nobody cares if the money is paid or not. These days you are considered a fool if you don't steal from the government of Ghana. Poor you Oman Ghana.
ADE 8 years ago

WHY WAIT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME? I THINK PAC IN PARLIAMENT ARE NOT SERIOUS,WHY CONDUCT THIS EXERCISE AFTER 4 YEARS? YOU ARE JUST NOT FIT FOR YOUR WORK. YOUR INTEREST IS MONEY FOR YOUR POCKETS AND NOT FOR GHANAIANS.

WHY WAIT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME? I THINK PAC IN PARLIAMENT ARE NOT SERIOUS,WHY CONDUCT THIS EXERCISE AFTER 4 YEARS? YOU ARE JUST NOT FIT FOR YOUR WORK. YOUR INTEREST IS MONEY FOR YOUR POCKETS AND NOT FOR GHANAIANS.
sadat cherraso 8 years ago

when will our leader learn to be genuine

when will our leader learn to be genuine
Osei 8 years ago

Sanctions will stop ghost namrs

Sanctions will stop ghost namrs
Nii Joromi 8 years ago

I keep saying this over and over that you cannot trust the average Ghanain with money. Thieves!

I keep saying this over and over that you cannot trust the average Ghanain with money. Thieves!
Jt 8 years ago

Stealing every where and detected, the perpetrators go free no criminal charges . Maybe in some cases ask to payback which no one did pay back. With this we talk of better Ghana agenda. Call it a cursed Ghana never to develop ...
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Stealing every where and detected, the perpetrators go free no criminal charges . Maybe in some cases ask to payback which no one did pay back. With this we talk of better Ghana agenda. Call it a cursed Ghana never to develop.
Joe 8 years ago

The nurses and trying their very best but pay conditions dreadful. Maham is not listening to the concerns of the Head of psychiatry at all. The mInister of Health has never visited the place so how could he even have an insig ...
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The nurses and trying their very best but pay conditions dreadful. Maham is not listening to the concerns of the Head of psychiatry at all. The mInister of Health has never visited the place so how could he even have an insight as to what is happening in the these institutions. he simply has no clue and where does he start any anlaysis otherwise than to be subjective in his comments about the place
Ringo Milano. 8 years ago

The ghosts are mad!

The ghosts are mad!

Ghost names on Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s payroll

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