Interdicted SSNIT IT boss, Dr Caleb Afaglo may have to return all salaries paid him by the Trust following revelations that he presented fake documents for the job in 2015.
The retrieval of the salaries he has received since his appointment in October 2015 to July 2017 is expected to feature prominently at a crucial SSNIT board meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
Joy News sources at the Trust say the board, chaired by former Defense Minister, Dr Addo Kufuor, wants to restore the integrity of the organisation after it received a battering in recent weeks.
The revelation about the lack of documents to back Dr Afaglo’s advertised credentials came a week after a $72 million software deal awarded by the Trust in 2012 was made public.
The contract has generated heated debate in the country, causing public disaffection for the Trust.
The initial contract sum was $34 million and it was to automate processes at the Trust.
The software was to provide superior services to SSNIT customers, reduce member enrolment cycle through forms, provide effective reporting solution, achieve real time processing of contribution reports and reduce benefit processing time.
But it was later revealed the system cost the Trust, which manages funds for pensioners, an unbudgeted $72 million within a four-year period.
The Trust is still paying for some components of it, current SSNIT Director-General John Tenkorang has told Joy News.
As though on cue, it has also been revealed that the man who played a key role in the implementation of some components of the contract has no degrees he claimed to have obtained.
An investigation by anti-graft agency, Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has disclosed Dr Afaglo has neither a master’s degree nor a first degree as he claimed.
He was handed the job in October 2015 after serving as an IT consultant to SSNIT and other state institutions including National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).
Joy News sources at SSNIT say Dr Afaglo was selected for the top IT job at the Trust because of his ‘impeccable’ credentials which EOCO now says are non-existent.
With a new mandate to purge the organization of all filth, the SSNIT Board under the authority of Dr Kufuor has summoned an emergency meeting to consider how it could compel Dr Afaglo to return all monies paid him.
The Board will also put in place mechanisms to avert future bad deals, Joy News sources have revealed.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
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Mr. President, IT WILL GO A LONG WAY TO INVESTIGATE MOST OF THE PEOPLE EMPLOYED BY THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT. Start from the FLAGSTAFF HOUSE HOUSE. Check their contracts, MOE,S and much more 'rot' shall be be unfolded and DEALT with.
BUT WHAT KIND OF OFFICIALS WHO SCRUTNISED HIS CREDENTIALS AND NOW THERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF FRAUD WITH REGARDS TO HIS EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATION? HE SHOULD BE FORCED TO PAY BACK ALL MONIES PAID TO HIM THROUGH OUT HIS CONTRACT PERIOD. THANK YOU
The QUESTION IS CAN SSNIT LEGALLY COLLECT THEIR MONIES BACK ? I DOUBT IT VERY MUCH BECAUSE THE BOARD ARE JUST INCOMPETENT PEOPLE APPOINTED ON POLITICAL GROUNDS THEY ARE FULL OF CORRUPT PEOPLE WHO WILL TAKE CASH INDIVIDUALY AND DROP THE MATTER : THESE KRIMINALS THIFFS INCLUDING THIS AFOGLA AND ERNEST THOMPSON HAVE MADE ENOUGH LOOT TO BRIBE THE BOARD.
I think a serious audit should be done all State owned enterprises and MDA's to ascertain the kind of certificate people present to get jobs. Imagine people working in Bank of Ghana with fake degrees.How would they manage our economy well. I believe audit should be done across all government institutions.
All the panel members who sat in to interview this Afalgo man should also be investigated. I suspect a clique within SSNIT hence, all these Kweku Ananse contracts.
Good job Dr. Addo Kufour. The Head of HR SSNIT and his entire team should be sacked.
In that case why does your report still refer to him as 'Dr' Afaglo?
Not even secondary school. Certificate,if you like go and check.
This witch hunting is meaningless the table will definitely turn one day.We live to see.
My brother, why do this to yourself? You've really worried all loved ones of yours. A simple check in the alumni sites of the schools you mentioned to have gone had no name of yours. Why, Caleb?. Why?