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Minister to investigate Ghana Post
Accra, Mar 4, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of
Communications, on Wednesday inaugurated a four-member
committee to investigate allegations of financial
irregularities at the Ghana Post (GP).
The four-member committee comprised Mr. Rodney Apaloo,
Principal Consultant, State Enterprises Commission (SEC),
Chairman, Mr. Ben Codjoe,
Assistant Auditor-General, Mr. Edward Akuamoah-Boateng,
Chief Accountant, Controller and Accountant-General’s
Department and Ms. Alice Attipoe, Director of Human Resource
Management Department of the Ministry of Communications as
members.
The Minister said allegations of financial impropriety
particularly in the areas of money transfer business and of
passport forms and phone cards sales had led to the
breakdown of communication between management, staff and the
local union who had been trading accusations and counter
accusations.
He said owing to the importance of GP to communication
within the country and between residents of the Ghana and
the outside world, it was important to deal with all those
issues to ensure that GP was strategically positioned in the
face of the fast changing communication technology around
the world.
Mr. Iddrisu spelt out a six point terms of reference for the
committee and asked members to submit the report by March
20, 2009.
The committee is to examine allegations that GP had lost its
surplus capital of about 600,000 Ghana cedis accumulated in
2004 and was now said to be in debt to the tune of 7.5
million Ghana cedis.
It will also examine allegations of non-payment of workers
taxes to the IRS, VAT and SSNIT contributions even though
they were deducted from source and the nature of
interpersonal relations between management and staff.
The minister also asked the committee to look into “alleged
serious mismanagement of the instant money transfer (IMT)
business by management resulting in its suspension and the
degree to which GP had been the loser financially.”
They are also to examine alleged charges of financial
mismanagement leading to the stoppage of other profitable
services such as the sale of passport forms and phone cards.
Mr. Iddrisu called on staff and management to cooperate with
the committee in its work, saying that the purpose was to
put GP on a sound footing to compete effectively in the
globalised communications world.
Mr. Apaloo thanked the minister for the confidence reposed
in members and assured that the committee would uphold the
principles of integrity, fairness and firmness in the
discharge of its duties.
GNA
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