DOSSIER: SSNIT software procurement scandal

About 5 people are currently being investigated by the Economic and Organized Crime Organization (EOCO) for their involvement in the acquisition of a BOS software for the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) at $66 million.

• Govt to absorb shortfall in lump sum paid by SSNIT to public sector retirees – Minister (2020-12-18)
• Asantehene commends SSNIT Board, Management (2020-12-03)
• Integration of SSNIT number, Ghana Card near completion (2020-11-27)
• Dr. Addo-Kufuor urges pensioners to support SSNIT public education efforts (2020-11-13)
• Group announces strike action over meager lumpsum benefits for pensioners (2020-10-21)
• Pensioners not worse off - SSNIT declares (2020-10-09)
• SSNIT adjudged Outstanding Organization (2020-09-29)
• TUC wants government to revise low lump-sum benefits of pensioners (2020-08-21)
• SSNIT asked to pay the right past credits to retirees (2020-07-10)
• Government debt to SSNIT made it reject Mahama's suggestion - Brogya Genfi (2020-05-07)
• Negotiate with SSNIT to pay our staff 50% of their salaries for 6 months – NHAG to govt (2020-04-30)
• SSNIT targets 24,000 new pensioners for 2020 (2020-01-03)
• SSNIT increases pensions by 11% in 2020 (2020-01-02)
• Pensioners forum calls for complete restructuring of SSNIT operations (2019-11-30)
• ‘Cease fire’ – Labour Ministry on SSNIT and Pensioners brouhaha (2019-11-29)
• We'll protect the welfare of members, not cheat them – SSNIT denies accusation (2019-11-28)
• We’re committed to paying Past Credit - SSNIT (2019-11-13)
• SSNIT moves to tackle low pensions (2019-11-05)
• SSNIT drags 4,310 employers to court (2019-10-25)
• State to produce IT expert in SSNIT OBS contract case (2019-10-20)
• Former SSNIT Boss’ application for special leave thrown out (2019-10-16)
• SSNIT OBS case: Supreme Court dismisses Ernest Thompson’s application (2019-10-16)
• Supreme Court bounces ex-SSNIT boss (2019-10-16)
• SSNIT pays GHC1.7 billion to pensioners as at July 2019 (2019-09-06)
• Government pays 3.1bn to pension schemes (2019-08-16)
• SSNIT recoups GH¢378m from defaulting employers (2019-07-28)
• EX-SSNIT Boss trial hangs (2019-06-12)
• SSNIT $66m OBS case: Ernest Thompson, others to appeal ruling (2019-05-27)
• SSNIT $66m OBS case: Accused to proceed to Court of Appeal (2019-05-27)
• Ex-SSNIT boss, 4 others’ case back on (2019-05-22)
• SSNIT gets GH¢9,937,274 as dividends from MTN (2019-05-15)
• I don’t want to stand trial - Ex SSNIT boss (2019-05-09)
• Highest paid pensioner earns GHC55,000 a month – SSNIT boss (2019-05-02)
• Court throws out ex-SSNIT boss (2019-04-18)
• SSNIT calculation of benefits flawed - TUC report (2019-03-21)
• Attorney General files 105 documents in ex-SSNIT boss case (2019-03-14)
• SSNIT OBS contract: Court to hear applications on March 22 (2019-03-14)
• Labour Unions give SSNIT Feb 28 ultimatum to honour credits payment deal (2019-02-12)
• High Court gives A-G two weeks to hand over documents to Ernest Thompson, others (2019-01-23)
• Pensioners will get their due – SSNIT (2019-01-22)
• 11% increase in pensions to cost GHC212m - SSNIT (2019-01-09)
• SSNIT receives GHC1.1 million from investments in two subsidiaries (2019-01-08)
• Provide OBS contract to Ex-SSNIT Boss – Court (2018-12-17)
• Court orders prosecution to provide Ernest Thompson with documents (2018-12-14)
• SSNIT trial: Provide missing pages of contract to accused – Court to AG (2018-12-14)
• SSNIT, Controller to meet over pension cash arrears (2018-12-03)
• SSNIT saves GHC20 million from pension payroll clean up (2018-11-30)
• No foreign trips for SSNIT board members – Board Chairman declares (2018-11-14)
• Court orders EOCO to release Afaglo’s passport (2018-11-05)
• SSNIT OBS scandal: EOCO ordered to release Afaglo’s passport (2018-11-02)
• SSNIT case adjourned to December 14 (2018-10-17)
• SSNIT OBS trial: Ernest Thompson given 8 weeks to study evidence (2018-10-17)
• Ignore rumours, your contributions are safe – SSNIT (2018-10-04)
• SSNIT debunks past credit rumours (2018-09-24)
• SSNIT cleans ghost names from scheme (2018-09-11)
• SSNIT saves GHS18.1m after deleting 8,366 ghost names (2018-08-30)
• SIC Insurance records progressive growth (2018-08-08)
• 7 SSNIT staff in court over fake certificates (2018-08-07)
• SSNIT boss in court over $72m scam (2018-07-25)
• Former SSNIT boss, four others slapped with 29 charges over $72m OBS contract (2018-07-24)
• Ex-SSNIT boss, four others slapped with 29 charges over $72m SSNIT OBS contract (2018-07-24)
• Former SSNIT boss, 4 others charged with causing financial loss (2018-07-24)
• Former SSNIT Boss, others to face court today (2018-07-24)
• SSNIT Pensioners commend Akyempim Rural Bank and SSNIT for good work (2018-06-22)
• My board didn’t approve $72m SSNIT deal - Alabi (2018-05-14)
• SSNIT assures workers of prosperous retirement (2018-05-03)
• SSNIT hid PwC’s caveat on OBS findings – Lawyer (2018-05-02)
• Terminate $147 million SSNIT digitization deal – Alabi (2018-05-01)
• SSNIT hid PwC’s caveat on OBS findings – Thompson (2018-04-28)
• SSNIT OBS: I queried Ernest Thompson and ordered audit on him - Former Board Chair (2018-04-26)
• SSNIT management misled board - Report (2018-04-24)
• SSNIT Investigative report: Some PwC staff may have been corrupted – Alabi (2018-04-23)
• Your pensions are safe – SSNIT Boss assures (2018-04-23)
• I’m not witch-hunting anyone; I have a business to run – SSNIT boss (2018-04-23)
• SSNIT saga: Thompson, 3 others charged for causing financial loss to state (2018-04-22)
• SSNIT Scandal: Media trial of Ernest Thompson unfair – Prof Alabi (2018-04-22)
• PLAYBACK: Newsfile on Joy News (2018-04-22)
• SSNIT report confusing, inaccurate and lacks clarity - Tax expert (2018-04-21)
• $74m SSNIT OBS fraud: ICT dealer should refund cash - PWC advises (2018-04-21)
• Software Saga: Lawyer opposes SSNIT (2018-04-21)
• SSNIT OBS saga: Silver Lake, PBS rip PwC audit report (2018-04-21)
• I will sue Director General of SSNIT for defamation – Ernest Thompson (2018-04-20)
• SSNIT Software Saga: Allegations against Ernest Thompson senseless – Lawyer (2018-04-20)
• $140m blown on SSNIT’s ‘partially functional’ digitization project – Report (2018-04-20)
• SSNIT OBS deal must be cancelled – Franklin Cudjoe (2018-04-20)
• SSNIT Saga: ‘Stop the propaganda’ - Lawyer for Ernest Thompson (2018-04-20)
• I’ve not been charged – Ex-SSNIT boss cries out (2018-04-20)
• SSNIT scandal: Lawyers condemn 'media trial' of Ernest Thompson (2018-04-20)
• I’m not aware of one-sided PwC audit – Ernest Thompson (2018-04-19)
• Amaliba 'jabs' PwC for not contacting former SSNIT Boss during audit (2018-04-19)
• SSNIT Boss charged over $72m scandal (2018-04-19)
• I’m not at SSNIT for ‘chop chop’ – Addo-Kufuor (2018-04-19)
• Ernest Thompson flew 1st class – SSNIT Boss (2018-04-19)
• I saved SSNIT GHS5.4m of travel per diem – Director-General (2018-04-19)
• We’ve sacked 10 staff with fake certificates – SSNIT boss (2018-04-19)
• Top SSNIT executives pocketed huge per diem for 'just being on plane' – Director General (2018-04-19)
• Indicted former SSNIT quartet yet to be charged - AG (2018-04-19)
• Ernest Thompson hits back at SSNIT; accuses management of falsehood (2018-04-19)
• Paying a SSNIT boss to attend board meetings cancelled – Director General (2018-04-19)
• I’m not aware of PwC Audit – Ernest Thompson (2018-04-19)
• PwC report on SSNIT interlaced with baseless commentary - Benjamin Essuman (2018-04-19)
• Ernest Thompson rejects PwC report following ‘needless press conference’ (2018-04-19)
• SSNIT scandal: EOCO indicts Ernest Thompson, four others (2018-04-18)
• SSNIT software saga: Ernest Thompson, others to face prosecution (2018-04-18)
• $72m Saga: Ex-SSNIT boss, 3 others indicted (2018-04-18)
• SSNIT fund lost GHC18m in 2016, gained GHC978m in 2017 - Director General (2018-04-18)
• SSNIT Board failed to ensure accountability in failed $147m project - Report (2018-04-18)
• Payroll cleansing yields results - SSNIT (2018-04-09)
• Payroll cleansing yields results — SSNIT (2018-04-09)
• SSNIT officials to face Amidu over $72m software scandal (2018-02-26)
• EOCO indicts SSNIT officials over controversial $72m software contract (2018-02-23)
• SSNIT cleans payroll; Over 8,000 pensioners to be affected (2018-02-22)
• TUC calls for radical reforms at SSNIT (2017-10-31)
• Purchase of SSNIT software was for good – Inusah Fuseini (2017-09-30)
• SSNIT's OBS deal: Board gives assurance (2017-09-30)
• SSNIT PRO ‘stops’ IT Head from providing information to Joy News (2017-09-28)
• Woes of SSNIT deepen as it discovers more errors with $72m software (2017-09-27)
• Controversial $72m SSNIT software working despite earlier claim (2017-09-25)
• Adom FM's fabewoso gets results as SSNIT debtors pay monies (2017-09-25)
• SSNIT fights back: We have over 2,000 issues with $72m knotty software (2017-09-25)
• SSNIT boss denies procuring dairies, calendars for over ¢72 million (2017-09-22)
• SSNIT boss denies procuring dairies, calendars for over ¢72 million (2017-09-22)
• SSNIT Scheme unsustainable; Contributors reducing - Former SIC director (2017-09-20)
• SSNIT doled out GH¢47 trillion as loans without collateral - Captain Smart (2017-09-20)
• NPRA takes SSNIT to task on software procurement (2017-09-20)
• All this useless politicking with happenings at SSNIT is irritating (2017-09-20)
• Row over pensions (2017-09-19)
• SSNIT ‘blows’ GHC79 million on pocket dairies - Captain Smart (2017-09-18)
• All SSNIT workers are thieves, freeloaders – Captain Smart (2017-09-18)
• Three more heads to roll over $72 million SSNIT software scandal (2017-09-18)
• SSNIT scandal hits $81m (2017-09-18)
• SSNIT scandal: Labor Federation urges unions to mount pressure on government (2017-09-16)
• Labour Federation angry over purchase of ‘luxury diaries’ by SSNIT (2017-09-15)
• Scandal proves SSNIT is unsustainable – Labor Federation (2017-09-14)
• Cronyism in SSNIT ‘Chop-Chop’ - How manager’s girlfriend got $72m contract (2017-09-10)
• SSNIT scandal: $72m figure may go up – EOCO (2017-09-08)
• NDC snubs SSNIT $72m scandal (2017-09-07)
• SSNIT scandal: Other corrupt deals identified – EOCO Boss (2017-09-07)
• Cost of SSNIT software could scale $72m (2017-09-07)
• Captain Smart exposes more rot at SSNIT (2017-09-06)
• Be concerned about SSNIT scandal – Hamid to Minority (2017-09-06)
• Businesses urged to consult psychologists during recruitments (2017-09-06)
• SSNIT scandal: NDC covering their involvement – Ablekuma Central MP (2017-09-06)
• SSNIT describes as 'completely false' it operates separate scheme for its workers (2017-09-05)
• We need expert advice to comment on SSNIT rot – Minority (2017-09-05)
• $72m SSNIT saga: We can't speak without 'expert advice' – Minority (2017-09-05)
• SSNIT scandal: We won’t rush to comment – Minority (2017-09-05)
• Massive workforce certificate verification hits SSNIT (2017-09-04)
• SSNIT verifies certificates of workforce (2017-09-04)
• SSNIT fraud decade-old – Expert (2017-09-04)
• Government to free Ibrahim's mining equipment (2017-09-04)
• SSNIT verifying qualifications of over 2000 employees (2017-09-04)
• SSNIT saga: NDC cannot rob the state - Anyidoho (2017-09-03)
• Wife of SSNIT IT boss divorced him due to his fake certification (2017-09-03)
• SSNIT blows $150m on ‘bogus’ housing project (2017-09-02)
• SSNIT scandal: IT manager’s Lawyers to challenge 'dismissal' in court (2017-09-02)
• SSNIT Board is dysfunctional – Kofi Bentil (2017-09-02)
• General Mosquito jabs Majority Leader (2017-09-02)
• SSNIT board didn’t give us requested ¢40m loan – BEIGE Bank (2017-09-01)
• My client’s dismissal by SSNIT unlawful – Afaglo’s lawyer (2017-09-01)
• Why are you so unpatriotic and insensitive? (2017-09-01)
• SSNIT Software benefitted state – NDC Communicator (2017-08-31)
• SSNIT $72m scandal: Board, Management take steps to publish names (2017-08-31)
• SSNIT IT boss sacked (2017-08-31)
• MTN awarded me for competence – Afaglo (2017-08-31)
• We’re embarrassed by SSNIT scandal – Organized labour (2017-08-31)
• SSNIT scandal: Organised Labour backs probe (2017-08-31)
• Afaglo threatens to challenge SSNIT in court (2017-08-31)
• $72m SSNIT software not surprising – Awuni (2017-08-31)
• Poor pension system breeding corruption in Ghana – Dr Jinapor (2017-08-31)
• $72m software should track 'when my dad met my mum' – Awuni (2017-08-31)
• EOCO throws searchlight on SSNIT software contractor (2017-08-30)
• Alabi fights back: We did viability appraisal on ‘abandoned’ $150m SSNIT project (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT scandal: Guilty officials to face 5-year jail term – PPA boss (2017-08-30)
• Minority’s deafening silence on SSNIT scandal surprising – Majority leader (2017-08-30)
• Group mounts defense for Alabi over ‘abandoned’ $150million SSNIT project (2017-08-30)
• Parliament to probe SSNIT software scandal (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT scandal: EOCO raids PBS (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT scandal: Board decides IT Manager's fate today (2017-08-30)
• Alabi led-SSNIT board ‘blows’ $150m on abandoned project (2017-08-30)
• More trouble for embattled SSNIT IT boss (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT lost GHC 20bn; $72m saga 'peanuts' - Consultant (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT sacks IT head over fake degrees (2017-08-30)
• Probe SSNIT’s investment portfolios – Andrew Awuni (2017-08-30)
• Collapse SSNIT – Consultant (2017-08-30)
• EOCO not being professional – George Loh (2017-08-30)
• Labour Union representatives on SSNIT Board incompetent – Abraham Koomson (2017-08-30)
• More names pop up in SSNIT scandal (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT confirms MIS Manager’s degrees are fake (2017-08-30)
• We will assist EOCO to probe $72 million OBS deal – SSNIT (2017-08-30)
• We’ll assist EOCO to probe $72m OBS deal – SSNIT (2017-08-30)
• Minority’s loud silence on SSNIT scandal surprising – Majority leader (2017-08-30)
• SSNIT scandal: TUC wants audit report made public (2017-08-30)
• Interdicted SSNIT IT boss defends academic credentials (2017-08-29)
• Andrew Awuni slams Organised Labour reps on SSNIT board (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT scandal engineered and planned – Franklin Cudjoe (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT saga: Crunch board meeting Wednesday (2017-08-29)
• Public Procurement Authority to probe SSNIT over $72m software deal (2017-08-29)
• Thoroughly probe SSNIT operations – Majority (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT scandal: Blame successive boards for mess – Lecturer (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT is a corrupt institution – Ken Agyapong (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT cert saga: Blame HR department – Labour Expert (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT to retrieve salaries paid interdicted IT boss (2017-08-29)
• How SSNIT lost its shares in UMB (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT’s investment strategies must change now – Bright Simons (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT scandal: Pensioners demand full account of spendings (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT IT Boss hot over fake certificates (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT scandal: Pensioners demand full account of spendings (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT scandal: EOCO raids IT firm Perfect Business Systems (2017-08-29)
• The University that awarded my Doctorate degree has been shut down - SSNIT IT Boss (2017-08-29)
• Public sector recruitment needs strict checks – Majority Leader (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT scandal: Osafo-Marfo has all the answers – Labour expert (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT $72m scandal: Ban curlpits from public service – Bright Simons (2017-08-29)
• I’m never attracted to pay SSNIT contribution – Allotey Jacobs (2017-08-29)
• 45% of SSNIT’s investment hitting negative returns – Bright Simons (2017-08-29)
• $72m SSNIT Scandal: EOCO probes IT boss for fake degrees (2017-08-29)
• $72m SSNIT scandal: EOCO probes IT boss over fake degrees (2017-08-29)
• Over GHC400m SSNIT loans unpaid (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT struggling to pay salaries – Andrew Awuni (2017-08-29)
• Deputy Agric Minister 'weeps' for Alabi over SSNIT scandal (2017-08-29)
• NPP using media allies to demonize SSNIT officials – Agbenyo (2017-08-29)
• Alabi led-SSNIT board ‘blows’ $150m on abandoned project (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT saga; Majority Leader suspects cronyism (2017-08-29)
• Publish details of SSNIT’s $72 million audit – TUC to Board (2017-08-29)
• SSNIT saga: Organised labour says they have been left in the dark (2017-08-29)
• NPP has turned the SSNIT scandal into a witch-hunt – NDC communicator (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT paid $500,000 for a $16,000 product; Simons unpacks the 'crazy' deal (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT paid $500,000 for a $16,000 product; Simons unpacks the 'crazy' deal (2017-08-28)
• EOCO interdicts head of SSNIT’s IT department over fake degrees (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT inflated $15K cost to $500k – Bright Simons (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT inflated $15,000 cost to $500,000 – Bright Simons (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT saga: Lawyer's advise against backdating payment for software ignored (2017-08-28)
• We thought SSNIT was poor to afford $72m deal – Persol (2017-08-28)
• My degrees are not fake – SSNIT IT head (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT lawyer warned against $72m software deal (2017-08-28)
• SSNIT’s bidding processes for software deal ‘poor’ – Persol (2017-08-28)
• Minority MP breaks silence on SSNIT scandal, wants culprits dealt with (2017-08-28)
• Former SSNIT Boss rejects claim ‘expensive’ software not functioning (2017-08-27)
• $72 million software: Former SSNIT boss speaks (2017-08-27)
• Kwame Peprah wades into controversial software SSNIT saga (2017-08-27)
• SSNIT’s digitization should’ve cost $5m- Franklin Cudjoe (2017-08-27)
• Spending $72m on SSNIT software which isn't working is distressful – Nana Akomea (2017-08-26)
• We did not award controversial SSNIT project – Prof Alabi (2017-08-26)
• 2 NDC gurus under fire over $66m SSNIT scandal (2017-08-25)
• 'Break silence on SSNIT saga' - Ernesto to NDC (2017-08-25)
• SSNIT software not $66 million - Documents reveal (2017-08-25)
• FULL TEXT: OBS contract by SSNIT signed in 2012 (2017-08-25)
• $72 million Software saga: Don’t panic – SSNIT boss tells workers (2017-08-25)
• $72million SSNIT rot: Sanction culpable authorities – Pensioners demand (2017-08-25)
• I was not in office when $66 million was used to buy software - Joshua Alabi (2017-08-25)
• Minority challenged to state position on $72 million SSNIT saga (2017-08-25)
• Joshua Alabi and Ernest Thompson are ‘liars’; I didn’t pay any money - Kwame Peprah (2017-08-25)
• Cost of SSNIT’s $66m software will increase – Director (2017-08-24)
• Joshua Alabi's handlers worried about his $66 million SSNIT software comment (2017-08-24)
• SSNIT asked for wrong ICT infrastructure in $66m project (2017-08-24)
• SSNIT software cost $72m, not $66m – Director-General (2017-08-24)
• Former SSNIT boss spent $34m without Board approval - Prof. Alabi (2017-08-24)
• Don’t panic; your monies are safe – SSNIT boss to workers (2017-08-24)
• EOCO summons 15 witnesses over $72m SSNIT faulty software (2017-08-24)
• How SSNIT selected $66m deal for controversial IT project over $3.8m bid (2017-08-24)
• I'm still paying cash for faulty $72m software – New SSNIT boss (2017-08-24)
• [Infographic]: 12 things that bloated SSNIT’s $72m software deal (2017-08-24)
• SSNIT scandal: IT expert says $66m software deal is ‘a scam, ridiculous’ (2017-08-24)
• SSNIT's $72m software can construct 1,440 fully furnished houses - Estate Developer (2017-08-24)
• Dysfunctional SSNIT software running into $72 million – SSNIT boss (2017-08-24)
• $72 million Software saga: Relook at SSNIT’s monopoly – Andrew Awuni (2017-08-24)
• Peprah didn’t approve $72m SSNIT OBS purchase – Aide (2017-08-24)
• Former SSNIT Boss will be jailed - Kennedy Agyepong (2017-08-24)
• SSNIT has failed to live up to expectation – Addo-Kufuor (2017-08-24)
• Joseph Attamah returns to Ghana squad for 2018 World Cup qualifiers (2017-08-24)
• Professor Alabi 100% in support of SSNIT probe (2017-08-24)
• $72 million SSNIT software not fully functional – Director-General (2017-08-24)
• I fully support SSNIT probe – Alabi (2017-08-24)
• SSNIT saga: Officials are candidates for causing financial loss to the state - Lawyer (2017-08-24)
• Kwame Peprah ‘runs away’ from controversial $72m SSNIT software scandal (2017-08-24)
• EOCO investigating more rot at SSNIT – Director-General (2017-08-24)
• $66m software investment without blemish – Ex-SSNIT boss (2017-08-23)
• SSNIT probes $66m software purchase (2017-08-23)
• Five under investigations over $66m SSNIT software deal (2017-08-23)
• Corruption inflated cost of SSNIT’s $66m software – Franklin Cudjoe (2017-08-23)
• $66m SSNIT rot: My hands are clean – Alabi (2017-08-23)