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Problems concerning workers' salaries will soon be solved -
Sottie
Cape Coast, March. 27, Ghanadot/GNA- The
Controller and Accountant-General, Mr Christian Tetteh
Sottie, on Thursday, assured workers on government payroll
that all problems relating to the payment of their salaries
would soon be resolved.
He said a team of experts from Oracle, a computer software
company in the United States, which developed the software
being used by the department, is being sent down next week
to help rectify faults associated with the Integrated
Personnel and Payroll Database (IPPD2) system.
Mr Sottie gave the assurance when he addressed a workers’
forum at Cape Coast to brief them about efforts being made
by his outfit to address the situation, following widespread
complaints about the system.
He mentioned some of the defects with the IPPD2 as
over-payment of loan recovery, payment of arrears for
workers promoted and under and over deduction of income
taxes.
Mr Sottie consented that there has been a lot of problems
and complaints with the system since it became operational
in June 2006, and said the consultants had done a lot to
resolve them, but there were still “unexplainable technical”
problems, hence the arrival of the team from Oracle, to have
the problems “resolved once and for all”.
On the payment of arrears for those promoted, Mr Sottie
explained that since there was not enough time to migrate
from IPPD 1 to IPPD2, the history of affected workers were
not fed into the IPPD2, and it would therefore take some
time to have that problem resolved.
He therefore appealed to all affected workers to exercise
restraint, while their histories are retrieved to enable the
department settle their arrears and expressed his dismay
about some workers, who to on air to insult officials of the
department, because of the problems, instead of contacting
the department.
He told the forum that the department, which was bogged down
by inadequate logistics, was working hard to resolve all
issues, and debunked the notion that such operational
problems had cropped up because it was inefficient.
He noted that with over 462 000 people, including about
100,000 pensioners on their payroll, there were bound to be
problems, “we have difficulties, but we are managing them”.
“As a department we are just a public service doing our part
to serve the nation “we are not well paid and you should not
add insults to injuries”, he stressed and appealed to those
who go to radio stations to air their problems about
salaries to rather contact his office for solutions.
On the department’s budgetary allocation, he said his outfit
had already spent GH¢7.1 million this year, although it had
been allocated GH¢ 4.9 million.
He told the workers that 60 percent of the country’s
earnings went into the payment of salaries, yet some workers
were not satisfied and asked how the country would progress
with such demands.
He asked Ghanaians to take up the challenge and do more for
the nation to move it forward by doing things differently to
attract investors and earn more foreign exchange, adding
that, posterity would not forgive the present generation if
it fails to move the country forward.
Mr Sottie is expected to meet with pensioners on Friday.
GNA
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