Thursday, August 23, 2012

Ghana accidentally saves $93,000 per month with biometric system

900 ex-students still draw allowances (Ghana Web)
About 900 students of the School of Hygiene in Tamale, who completed their studies seven years ago, are still withdrawing allowances as students from the government's payroll.

This is notwithstanding the fact that some of them have been employed.

Each student is said to be withdrawing GH¢200 a month and this has cost the nation GH¢15,120,004.

The deal was exposed during the biometric registration of employees on the payroll system, in Tamale.
900 x 200 = 180,000

                    180,000.00 GHS
=93,047.34 USD
Ghanaian CediUS Dollar
1 GHS = 0.516930 USD1 USD = 1.93450 GHS