{"id":395867,"date":"2017-06-15T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/15\/publish-list-of-deleted-beneficiaries-minority-challenges-yea\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:06:36","slug":"publish-list-of-deleted-beneficiaries-minority-challenges-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/15\/publish-list-of-deleted-beneficiaries-minority-challenges-yea\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish list of deleted beneficiaries \u2013 Minority challenges YEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n              <\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament is daring the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to publish the list of some 16,839 beneficiaries whose names were deleted last week.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition lawmakers said they are convinced the deletion exercise was deliberately done to rid the payroll of persons employed by the past administration.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in Accra Thursday, Deputy Minority leader, James Avedzi Klutse said there is no evidence to back the Agency\u2019s claim that the affected beneficiaries are &#8216;ghosts&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Article: Youth Employment Agency sheds off 16,839 names from payroll<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are placing on record the Justin Kodua Frimpong management is complicit in the numbers being thrown into the media as ghosts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Acting Chief Executive Officer of YEA, Justin Frimpong announced the deletion of the names of 16,839 out of the Agency\u2019s 63,000 beneficiary list following an internal audit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1497549934_121_4269159865617_1878512825661.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:427px; width:640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Acting Chief Executive Officer of YEA, Justin Frimpong<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said the audit, conducted within the period of four months, revealed some irregularities at the Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kodua Frimpong said some of the beneficiaries were using the same E-zwich numbers to access their allowances. He also said there is huge arrears left for the new management as a result of non-payment of beneficiary allowances since May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He told the media the exercise has saved the country more than GHS20 million which\u00a0will now be used to create job opportunities for the youth.<\/p>\n<p>But the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs said the argument put out by the Agency is false and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers said there are paper and digital trails for the new management to establish the identity of the beneficiaries before going ahead with the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt YEA there is a complete digital trail of all money from Bank of Ghana to the bank account of all the youth engaged in the youth module which could be accessed,\u201d Mr Klutse\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Agency runs a \u201ctotally decentralized system\u201d in collaboration with the various security agencies in all districts in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe YEA district directors in conjunction with their colleague district directors of education, health, fire service, Prisons, police interviewed each of the beneficiaries and there is a paper trail as well so if anybody wants to identify any beneficiary they can easily be traced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Klutse Avedzi\u00a0charged the YEA new management to publish the audit report which came out of its internal audit for Ghanaians to know the content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament is daring the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to publish the list of some 16,839 beneficiaries whose names were deleted last week. 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