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Controller and Accountant General warns against huge
demands on budget
Wa, Sept. 5, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr Christian Sottie, the
Controller and Accountant General has said that it did not
make economic sense for the government to meet the huge
salary demands on the national budget by workers.
He said out of the government’s projected expenditure of 7.1
billion Ghana cedis for the year, 4.9 billion Ghana cedis
was coming from its revenue, with salaries and wages of the
public sector alone accounting for 60 per cent of the
expenditure.
If government was, therefore to double the salaries of its
workers no money would be left for other areas of the
economy.
“Investments, administration and other services which take
40 per cent of the budget will suffer, if the government
meets all the financial demands of workers under its
payroll.”
He said this at Wa on Wednesday during an interaction with
workers within the public sector in the Upper West Region.
Mr Sottie was in Wa to interact with public sector workers
and explain issues agitating their minds with regard to
salary administration to them.
He allayed the fears of the workers about the frequent
anomalies recorded in salaries, saying that a new set of
software had been developed to address those problems.
The Controller and Accountant General answered questions on
rent deductions, refund of overpayments and delays in paying
newly engaged workers.
He explained that if financial clearance was not obtained by
a Ministry, Department or Agency before a worker was
engaged, there was bound to be a delay.
On problems associated with his department, he said they
were catering for 367,000 workers, and with such a massive
workforce, problems would definitely arise especially when
their working tools were bad.
GNA
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