The Ministry of Health has pleaded for a six-month extension to recover approximately 100,000 cedis from 19 employees who defaulted on rent payments in 2022.
These staff members were provided with official accommodation at Korle Bu and Asylum Down Flats but failed to pay their rent.
The Ministry attributes the payment defaults to the Financial Controller of the Ministry of Finance not submitting the required input forms.
The Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation at the Ministry, Emma Ofori Agyemang stated that only 11,000 cedis of the total amount has been recovered so far.
She assured the committee that a system is in place to recover the outstanding payments by deducting the rent from employees’ salaries going forward.
Mrs Agyemang requested the six-month deadline, stating, “Honourable please, we are still in the process. Because we have put a system in place that going forward the rent will be deducted, we have a draft payment plan for them to recover the remaining beyond the 11,000 that has been settled.
“Honourable please, it won’t go more than six months.”
