CAGD opens payroll printing center in Northern Region

The Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has   commissioned a decentralized Payroll Printing Center in Tamale to cater for public and civil servants in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.

The new printing center would also check anomalies and the deletion of separated staffs on the government payroll who receive their salaries from the CAGD as well as reduce the burden on pensioners since all their concerns would now be addressed at the center in Tamale.

Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, Deputy Northern Regional Minister who commissioned the Center, said the inauguration showed that the government attached importance to the decentralization process and that the government recently recruited graduates into the Local Government Service.

He said the operationalization of the composite budget system at the district level had resulted in a single budget for all departments at the District Assemblies, as means of putting control mechanisms over finances of all departments for effective planning and implementation at the district level.

Alhaji Fuseini gave the assurance that despite the huge wage bill, government would not reverse the implementation of the new salary structure, and appealed to public servants to exercise restraint in their agitations.

Madam Grace Francisca Adzoe, Acting Controller and Accountant-General, in a speech read for her, said  governments over the years had initiated reforms in the public sector to ensure fiscal discipline and macro-economic stability, adding that the Financial Administration Act, 2003 (Act 564), ensured that new entrants were captured onto the payroll without any delay.

She said the new payroll printing center in Tamale, which is the third out of four in the country, meant to reduce delays in printing pay reports and that heads of MDAs could receive reports on time and reduce risks of transporting payroll reports to the regions from Accra.

Madam Adzoe said the Department had introduced E-Pay slip system and E-Payment vouchers, to improve efficiency in the payroll delivery.

Mr Daniel Quayson, Northern Regional Director of CAGD, said the new system would curtail the myriad frustrations workers and pensioners go through to get their challenges met.

Source: GNA