Economist, Professor William Baah-Boateng, says one way to fix the wage problem in Ghana is to ensure that right payment systems are put in place.
Ghana has been losing funds through multiple salary payouts to ghost names in its payroll. While there have been several attempts to rid the national payroll of these ghost names once and for all, the problem still persists.
Prof. Baah-Boateng believes that for a reliable payroll, a safe and transparent payment system has to be created to see to it that government workers receive what is due them, not more or less.
“I mean, you may get somebody who is in the public sector and taking salaries from three different sources, government wouldn’t know unless you, unless somebody says that ‘well, this person is here, the person is here, the same person is here’ so government is paying one person three times. When that happens government will be bleeding. That one is not the role of government to do that.
“It is up to the manager of some of these people to be able to know that we’re actually paying people what they are due. And that is why systems put in place to ensure that the public sector workers are being paid, it means they’re working to be paid.”
He further added that while government is doing its part to help solve the problem; citizens must also “do our part and ensure that we are paid based on what we do.”
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