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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has emphasized how crucial it is to put in place a biometric identification procedure for new hires and staff in the public sector.
He emphasized that by taking this action, phantom identities would no longer appear on payroll, ensuring that only people who deserve it be paid, according to myjoyonline.com.
“Ghosts can not have fingerprints so once you require fingerprint. The ghosts will run away because they can not produce the fingerprints. That is the problem it creates for the ghosts,” he said.
Dr. Bawumia made it clear during his remarks at an Accra event that this procedure will connect their NID cards to the payroll, enabling their presence on the system and streamlining the salary payment procedure.
“New entrances are required to undergo the biometric verification identification process to activate their information on the national payroll system to facilitate the monthly payment of salaries,” he mentioned.
Dr. Bawumia underlined the need for this procedure, saying that it is required and helps the government figure out precisely how many people are employed.
“The objective of the linkage that we have done, this historic linkage, is now to make it mandatory for the Ghana Card to be used as a means of validation of newly recruited employees and also the re-verification of existing employees and pensioners on the government of Ghana mechanise payroll system,” he added on January 10, 2024.
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