The Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD), has organised a two-day training programme on the Electronic Salary Pay (E-SPV) for government employees in the Eastern Region.

The training would enable the trainees to validate credible staff members on government pay roll in their areas.

The system would help head of ministries, departments and state agencies electronically validate and justify the inclusion of their subordinates or staff members for their monthly salaries online.

Employees of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies and government agencies and departments who vacate their post, absent themselves without excuse duty from the appropriate authority or who refused to take up transfer or posting to other areas would forfeit their salaries.

Heads of government institutions mandated under the system to validate pay vouchers submitted by the CAGD, would be required to do so within 48-hours after prompting on their mobile telephones, failure to meet that deadline would result in forfeiture of salaries for the staff of the institution for that month.

According to Mr Edward Baah, the Director of Payroll, the introduction of the electronic pay voucher system is to address the anomalies on the government wage bill and also to minimise the irregularities to ensure that only credible persons employed by government are paid salaries.

He noted that because of the delay in head of departments and agencies in receiving pay vouchers, it would be difficult for the documents to be scrutinised and any alterations made before salaries are paid.

The Director of Pay Roll, urged the participants to be firm and professional by ensuring that, only staff under them who had offered services as per their terms and conditions of employment are validated to be paid to help cleanse the pay roll.

Mrs Rosetta Addison-Sackey, the Regional Director of Education, urged heads of institutions to ensure that those under them earn their salaries

She expressed the hope that heads would take charge of the new system to exercise their mandate by supervising and ensuring that workers who do not deserve to be paid salaries for breaching aspects of the contractual agreement are not paid.