Three more SSNIT employees join Afaglo into interdiction – Report

Three more employees of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) have been interdicted for their roles in the in the $72 million software scandal at the Trust, the Daily Graphic newspaper has reported.

The publication says the Manager of data management unit, Joseph Appiah-Mensah, the Head of Networks, Erasmus Acheampong Mensah, and the man in charge of the team that migrated SSNIT’s legacy into the Operational Business Suite, Harold Brookman-Amissah have all been placed on interdiction. The newspaper cited an interdiction letter written to Appiah-Mensah.

The three employees, the paper said have been instructed to make themselves available to the Economic and Organised Crime Office for further investigations.

Last month news broke that the SSNIT, which is holding the largest pension of Ghanaian workers had spent some $66 million on a software that didn’t work, but the figure was later corrected to $72 million.

Following that revelation, it was discovered that the man who was hired to head the Management Information Systems of SSNIT, Caleb Afaglo and was using the title ‘Dr’ didn’t have a doctorate degree at all.

On the website of SSNIT, Afaglo was listed as having graduated with bachelors and Masters degrees from the Georgia institute of Technology, also known as Georgia Tech in the USA. But ghanabusinessnews.com enquiries uncovered that to be a lie, as he was never enrolled at Georgia Tech.

The EOCO ordered the interdiction of Afaglo for presenting fake documents to secure the job. Afaglo is also on record to have worked with some high profile organisations and churches with these same fake qualifications.

But Afaglo claims that one of the Universities he graduated from with a PhD, University of Cincinnati was shut down in 2011.

The SSNIT has since the incidents started a verification of the academic records of over 2,400 of its employees.

By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi