In light of the delay in payment of the government workers’ salaries, the Minority Leader, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, has disclosed that the Government of Ghana is having difficulty paying the February salaries of public sector employees while addressing members on the floor of the House.
This comes after GCB Bank posted a tweet informing workers that it was having challenges processing salaries from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department.
The Minority Leader was responding to the Electoral Commission’s new Constitutional Instrument that seeks to make the Ghana card the sole form of identification for voter registration. He informed the House that if the government is unable to pay salaries of public sector workers for February, it cannot assure that every Ghanaian will acquire a Ghana card.
“As we speak today, the government is unable to pay salaries. If you check the Twitter account of GCB Bank, it says it is unable to pay salaries. So if the government is unable to pay salaries, how can it accept assurances that every Ghanaian will acquire the Ghana card.”
The finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, in Parliament at the time quickly refuted claims that the government had defaulted on paying salaries of public sector employees.
“The Minority Leader said, there have been some challenges with data challenges with salary processes and, in his way what we call terminological inexactitude, is interpreting that to mean the Republic of Ghana not having money to pay salaries. That is wrong and disingenuous, and we should not allow that to be perpetuated.”
