The Civil and Local Government Staff Association Ghana (CLOGSAG) has accused politicians of being behind the incidence of ‘ghost names’ and the ballooning public sector wage bill.
According to the Executive Secretary of the Association, Isaac Bampoe Addo, there was evidence that the ‘ghost names’ that could not be identified on the public payroll were Personal Assistants of some Ministers of state.
Speaking at the Fifth Nathan Annang Quao Lectures on the theme “Abuse of political power in the Ghanaian Civil Service: the bane of National Development,” Mr Bampoe Addo said politicians had interfered with Civil Service principles over the years.
He further indicated that politicians had abused the use of political power by outsourcing consultancy services to political party apparatchiks.
