The Minority Leader in Parliament, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has stated that the Government of Ghana is having difficulty paying public sector employees’ February salaries.
He cited a tweet from GCB Bank indicating that it was having difficulties processing salaries from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department.
Dr. Ato Forson was speaking to members on the floor of the House about the Electoral Commission’s new Constitutional Instrument, which seeks to make the Ghana card the primary document for voter registration.
“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 the government every Ghanaian will acquire the Ghana card?
However, Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, who was also present in Parliament, responded to the claim.
He refuted the claim, claiming that the government had breached its obligations.
“The Minority Leader said, there have been some challenges with data challenges with salary processes and in his own 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.”
