Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Ekow Vincent Assafuah, is of the view that the decision to audit government payroll is a waste of state resources.
He argues that there is already a mechanism in place where such audits are done month so it beats his imagination that another audit will be done by the Auditor General. "More importantly, this so-called special audit duplicates an existing mechanism already set in motion by the previous administration.
Under that initiative, Internal Auditors, the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD), and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) have been conducting monthly reviews of public sector payrolls to identify and eliminate ghost names.
There is absolutely no justification for this parallel exercise which only wastes state resources, burdens the already stretched staff of the Audit Service, and sends the wrong signals to civil and public servants across the country." He has therefore urged the Auditor General to "Rather than pursuing this as a special operation, Mr.
