Ghosts in Ghana

600 government workers aged between 60 - 110 years (Modern Ghana)

In the morning, the motion in Parliament on November 16, for the approval of the 2012 budget statement, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Kwabena Duffour said; “as part of fiscal consolidation policy, government is undertaking a biometric registration of all pensioners and active employees on government payroll. The resultant database would be used for all future payments of wages, salaries and pensions in the public sector.”

Dr. Duffuor said the exercise which had been completed in the Eastern, Volta, Central, Western and Greater Accra regions, indicated that 29,563 representing 41 per cent of all pensioners could not be accounted for and could be described as ghost or non-existing names.