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Agitators behind ‘Ghost names’ – Kwarteng

The deputy Finance Minister, Kwaku Kwarteng said Tuesday that those criticizing efforts by government to rid the public payroll of “ghost names” are those inputting the said names in the system.

NAGRAT has been on a collision course with government following an announcement that teachers who defaulted in getting their biometric data captured by SSNIT would forfeit their salaries for April.

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta last week ordered the removal of about 26,589 names of public workers from the government’s payroll.

Those affected, according to him in a statement, have not been registered on the new SSNIT biometric system, despite several directives to do so.

As a result, payment of their salaries would be suspended indefinitely until they have completed their SSNIT re-registration – a move NAGRAT described as punitive.

But speaking on Starr fm, Mr. Kwarteng said government will not back down from its campaign.

He said the people revolting against the move are doing so because they have entered illegitimate names into the government’s payroll system and that they are scared of being exposed hence the agitation.

“This is how we have been running this country and we keep going down,” he bemoaned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: starrfmonline

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