{"id":1197223,"date":"2022-09-02T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/ghost-names-saga-how-can-there-still-be-ghost-names-on-govt-payroll-joe-jackson\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:16:42","slug":"ghost-names-saga-how-can-there-still-be-ghost-names-on-govt-payroll-joe-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/ghost-names-saga-how-can-there-still-be-ghost-names-on-govt-payroll-joe-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Names Saga: How Can There Still Be Ghost Names On Gov\u2019t Payroll? &#8211; Joe Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dc86e1f8b1a045dc9979a1e34b640b18\" alt=\"Ghana is broke, take hard decisions \u2013 Joe Jackson charges government\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Director of Operations at Dalex Finance, Mr Joe Jackson says he is surprised the incidence of identity fraud still persist on Government payroll despite the number of times public sector workers are audited before they received the salaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The issue of identity fraud on government payroll has been an age-old problem, however the current administration has introduced a number of measures  a biometric system to nib it in the bud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Despite these efforts, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has recently expressed shock over the extent of fraud on government payroll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Speaking at the recently held Internal Auditors Conference in Accra, Dr Bawumia disclosed that about 148,000 Ghost names have been uncovered in the latest biometric audit of public sector workers on government payroll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He says the Ghost names discovered did not match any Ghana card, adding that 533 people were also discovered to have triple identities, and in some cases three accounts on government payroll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Reacting to this, Mr Jackson, In a tweet Mr Jackson says \u201cI agree that Ghana Card\/ biometrics cannot solve the &#8216;Ghost Names&#8217; problem. We have had multiple biometric audits, and each month, heads of public depts validate each person on the payroll&#8230; How can there still be Ghost names on the Govt payroll?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAccra<br \/>\nBawumia<br \/>\nDalex Finance<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nInternal Auditors Conference<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Operations at Dalex Finance, Mr Joe Jackson says he is surprised the incidence of identity fraud still persist on Government payroll despite the number of times public sector workers are audited before they received the salaries. The issue of identity fraud on government payroll has been an age-old problem, however the current administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11157,225,1838,3183,772,4152,3407],"class_list":["post-1197223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ghost","tag-govt","tag-jackson","tag-joe","tag-names","tag-payroll","tag-saga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197223","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=1197223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}