The Minister of Information Hon Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has stated that 20,000 ghost names have been removed from the payroll of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) over the past three and half years.
According to Oppong Nkrumah,the due diligence conducted by YEA has saved the nation to a tune of GHS82.5 million annually.
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Addressing the media and people at the maiden nation-building updates in Accra, Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah commended the Agency for conducting the audit.
“One of the most significant things the Youth Employment Agency has done is, just by doing due diligence, to save us about GHS82. 5 million a year for the last three and half years. For all the numbers that they were claimed to have been on the Youth Employment Programme, by doing an audit, about 20,000 ghosts have been exorcised from that roll and that translates to about GHS82 million a year”,he highlighted.
An internal audit carried out by YEA in 2017 exposed a huge financial irregularities believed to have cost the country GH $50 million.
