NPP has sunk so low into infamy – Omane-Boamah
The Minister for Communications, Dr Edward Omane-Boameh, has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of “sinking so low into infamy”.
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He was responding to comments by the NPP to the effect that the Mahama administration was complicit in the bloated nature of the government’s payroll and had, through the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), inserted the names of its cadres to pay them money they did not deserve.
That, the NPP said, was responsible for the huge amount of money the government had to pay as salary at the end of every month.
The party, therefore, advised the government to “look within” in a bid to solve the problem and stop looking elsewhere for ghost names.
But speaking Thursday on Accra-based Joy FM, Dr Omane-Boamah, said the NPP had poisoned the political atmosphere with those “baseless” allegations.
Denying that the government was paying its cadres via the payroll, the Minister said he could not comprehend why the NPP was coming up with such allegations at a time that government was making efforts to rid the payroll of ghosts.
He said the Controller and Accountant Genera had already written to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), warning that workers who did not have bank accounts would soon be cut off from the payroll.
Dr Omane-Boamah said the government was also implementing an electronic payment voucher system as part of efforts to sanitise the payroll.
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The interventions, he said, showed clearly that government was “adopting both IT solutions and interventions from manual level” to eliminate ghost names from the payroll.
The Minister said despite admitting that it did not have any evidence, the NPP still went ahead to make the claims because it was “inundated with the avalanche of projects” that government was undertaking.
“We have not recruited ghosts,” he emphasied