{"id":1196689,"date":"2022-09-01T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/we-have-recovered-%c2%a21-1m-salary-paid-to-3-non-staff-finance-ministry-responds-to-auditor-generals-report\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T18:47:34","slug":"we-have-recovered-%c2%a21-1m-salary-paid-to-3-non-staff-finance-ministry-responds-to-auditor-generals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/we-have-recovered-%c2%a21-1m-salary-paid-to-3-non-staff-finance-ministry-responds-to-auditor-generals-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 &#8211; Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 - Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report \" title=\"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 - Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report \"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Finance Ministry says it has recovered the GH\u00a21.1 million paid to non-staff of the Ministry which was reported by the Auditor-General.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry said it recovered the said amount when it\u2019s attention was drawn to the discrepancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah made this known in a Facebook post on Wednesday, August 31.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-John-Kumah.png\" alt=\"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 - Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032104877\"   title=\"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 - Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>John Kumah, Deputy Finance Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Kumah thus urged the Auditor-General to also comment on recoveries made in its final report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKindly note that the funds paid\u00a0were recovered when the attention of the Ministry was drawn to this anomaly. This is why I always insist that the Auditor-General\u2019s report must also have update on recoveries being made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Deputy Minister also stated the the supposed \u201cghost names\u201d were personnel seconded from the Ghana Revenue Authority to the Ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjohnkumaha%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02eDDY2rRNT6eX3GHF9ahMjYU3zpNoF8vChbgq9QWq1SQZB5PWBZUvaRHG5vuzFdbSl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three Ghost names are personnel seconded from GRA, for whom there was some misunderstanding about which payroll they belonged to for the period of the secondment. The amounts paid have been recovered from the GRA as indicated and the Ministry will in due time share more details.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Auditor-General in its 2021 report on the Public Accounts of Ghana \u2013 Ministries, Departments and Other Agencies stated that some persons who are not staff of the Finance Ministry were paid salaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-John-Kumah.png\" alt=\"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 - Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032104877\"   title=\"\u2018We have recovered \u00a21.1m salary paid to 3 non-staff \u2019 - Finance Ministry responds to Auditor-General\u2019s report\u00a0\"\/><figcaption>Deputy Finance Minister, John Kumah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The three individuals; Allotey James, Nana Yaw Asiedu and Adam Habibu received a combined GH\u00a21,112,896.00 as salaries between January 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest report, there were no traces of the trio\u2019s personal files at the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegulation 86 of the Public Financial Management Regulations, 2019 (L.I. 2378) states that a Principal Spending Officer of a covered entity shall ensure that only the names of personnel who are eligible to receive payment for work done are kept on the payment voucher and keep records of the nominal roll of the covered entity in a manner that ensures that the correct amount of emolument is paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe noted that three persons were paid a total of GH\u00a21,112,895.96 as salaries for the period January 2020 to December 2021, but we could not trace their personal files and names on the nominal roll of the Ministry,\u201d parts of the report read.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Ministry says it has recovered the GH\u00a21.1 million paid to non-staff of the Ministry which was reported by the Auditor-General.\u00a0 The Ministry said it recovered the said amount when it\u2019s attention was drawn to the discrepancy.\u00a0 A Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah made this known in a Facebook post on Wednesday, August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[24828,5984,457,459,24829,199,9702,1584,2979,229],"class_list":["post-1196689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-1-1m","tag-auditorgenerals","tag-finance","tag-ministry","tag-nonstaff","tag-paid","tag-recovered","tag-report","tag-responds","tag-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}