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Fraud didn’t happen under my watch – Former CEO
The former CEO in a press statement insisted the fraud did not during his tenure. He also called for a detailed report on the audit to promote fairness and transparency.
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This follows an internal audit conducted by YEA which has exposed payroll fraud which is believed to have cost the country GH $50 million.
This amount is said to be a sum of unearned salaries paid to unposted beneficiaries, funds for official use which were paid into personal accounts, and procurement without adherence to due process.
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“The YEA Beneficiary management software after satisfying prescribed criteria electronically signed all beneficiary appointment letters. My signature was embedded in the database and as and when the appointment letter was generated by the database, my signature was placed electronically on the appointment letter. According to the press statement/conference, these anomalies were detected in March and April of 2017. I handed over the management of the agency to the current CEO on Friday the 24th of February 2017, and so these anomalies occurred after my handing over. These are obviously fraudulent, and I would encourage the management to involve the appropriate authorities and apprehend those who forged our signatures,” Mr Obecheem explained.
“I commend the management for undertaking such an exercise. However, in the interest of fairness and transparency, a detailed signed report from those management conducting the exercise would be very helpful and enable us to comment on the basis of empirical data. I would urge the publication of this report by management,” he added.
The names of 16,839 people have been deleted from the payroll of the Youth Employment Agency.
According to the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Justine Kodua Frimpong, the action was taken after an internal audit was conducted and that the country has been saved over 20 million cedis as a result.
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“A total of 16,839 beneficiaries have been deleted from the payroll, and this has saved the taxpayer as much as twenty million, two hundred and six thousand, eight hundred cedis,” he said.
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Of this number, 2,716 beneficiaries did not have appointment letters while another set 4,681 people had vacated their posts but were receiving salaries. 9,442 beneficiaries were also not within the age range required to be part of the youth employment initiative.
Mr Frimpong said the agency will make a decision about the fate of beneficiaries without letters of appointments within a month.
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