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Controller and Accountant General against huge demands on
budget
Wa, Sept. 6, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr.
Christian Sottie, the Controller and Accountant General has
remarked 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 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 and with such a massive workforce,
problems would definitely arise especially when they had
working tools that were bad.
GNA
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