BREAKING NEWS
MASSIVE ROT UNCOVERED
AT THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY (YEA) - HOW GHANA WAS RAPED
The new Management of YEA under the acting CEO, Mr. Justin
Kodua Frimpong has uncovered what would go in history as arguably the worst
scandal the Agency has witnessed involving some GHc 52.8 million or 580 billion
old cedis of the taxpayers' money which would have gone into wrong hands if his
outfit had not intervened to save the situation.
There were also multitudes of gross impropriety, acts of criminality
and maladministration that were uncovered. The acting CEO of the Agency made
these mind-boggling revelations when he addressed a Press Conference on
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at the Ministry of Information conference room in
Accra.
The new Management, he said, arrived at these findings
through a physical verification exercise conducted by the Agency's Monitoring
and Evaluation Unit as well as the work of the Internal Audit Agency, which was
commissioned by Management to conduct a special audit into the operations of
the Agency.
In all, it was discovered that there were 42,794
beneficiaries with various improprieties who were nonetheless, being paid by
the Agency without any legitimate basis. In other words, the Ghanaian taxpayer,
over the period, was burdened with the payment of money to people, numbering
over 42,000, who did not deserve a penny from us. This is the breakdown of the
figure:
- 2,716 beneficiaries did not have appointment letters but
were being paid
- 9,442 beneficiaries were above the age requirement but were
being paid
- 4, 681 beneficiaries have vacated post but were being paid
- 11,512 beneficiaries were without assumption of duty
letters but were being paid
- 14,443 beneficiaries did not exist at all but payment was
effected in their names
All of these people were receiving monthly allowance from the
Youth Employment Agency and for that matter the Ghanaian taxpayer. The auditing
exercise also revealed the following discrepancies:
- Funds meant for official use were being paid to personal
accounts
- Procurements were done without recourse to due process
- No supporting documents for some payments effected in the
name of the Agency
- District directors conniving with some beneficiaries to
partake in the physical verification exercise, knowing very well that these
beneficiaries were not at post
- Some appointment letters were purportedly singed by the
Acting CEO when same was not the case. The date on which those signings were
done, Justine Kodua had not even been appointed. Clearly, his signature was
forged and backdated to allow people take money illegally.
- Some appointment letters were issued bearing the signature
of the outgone CEO between March and April 2017, at which time, he was not in
office.
Aside the issue of fraud and criminality, which would be
handled by EOCO and the BNI according to the Acting Director, the net effect of
these improprieties is that, the Ghanaian taxpayer would have paid as much as
GHc52.8 million or 520 billion old cedis but for the steps undertaken by the
new Management. This money is bigger than the amount paid to the infamous
Alfred Agbesi Woyome (GHc 51 million).
It is also bigger than the 2017 budgetary allocation to some
three Ministries. But that is how much we would have wasted on some criminal
elements in our society. Characteristically, I won't romanticize with words and
call this corruption or indiscretion or impropriety. This is a clear case of
daylight thievery, criminality and a raid on the Ghanaian purse.
And if these enemies of State are being prosecuted and you
describe the action as political witch-hunting, then my brother, you are worse
than the notorious murderers of the legendary captain Mahama. You don't deserve
to call yourself a citizen of Ghana.
All in all, you would agree with me that the new Management
has done a yeoman's job. And so, I doff my hat for the acting CEO, Justin Kodua Frimpong and his two deputies including my elder brother, Ibrahim Bashiru and Miss Lydia
Atiemo for this great service to country. They have vindicated the ginormous
confidence reposed in them by His Excellency President Nana Akufo-Addo and I’m
proud of them. Change has indeed come. Long live my motherland.
Assalamu alaikum
Iddi Muhayu-Deen
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