University of Ghana (UG) dismisses Auditor-General’s Gh¢59.2 million payroll overstated claim

The administration of the University of Ghana (UG) has declined the Auditor-General’s Report that states the institution overestimated its workers reimbursement by Gh¢59.2 million the the space of two years, that’s from 2022 to 2024.

On the report of the administration of the Institution, the information by the Auditor-General was deceiving and ascribing the affirm to a misreading of its salary structure. In giving an explanation, the University of Ghana stated its payment works beneath two different constituents: the Government of Ghana (GoG) payment and the Internally Generated Funds (IGF) payment.

Payroll beneath the IGF, together with legitimate authorised agreements for existing after retirement employees, were legal and clear, and not unauthorised spending as mentioned in the Auditor-General’s information.

In a report made on May 16, 2025 and released by the Registrar, Emelia Agyei-Mensah, the institution made it clear that, IGF payrolls are made from its own financial streams, not the state’s resources, and are completely protesting with public financial statement levels and that such payrolls, for that reason, do not belong to the listing of denials.
UG declared that the Auditor-General’s unable to identify the difference between the GoG and IGF payments and the choice to combine the two generated a deformed perception of payment affectation. The university kept on that, the announced figure does not indicate a mislaying or misuse of state funds.

The institution went ahead to reveal that between 2021 and 2024, it missed 887 employees through pension, stepping down, and other parting, however just conferred approved to enrol102 new staffs in 2024. With learners figure increase suddenly to above 76,000 in the time of the same space, UG consulted to inward funding delibrate employee employment to support academic levels.

The administration accounted the GH¢59.24 million as a key reimbursement for employees needed to support teaching, research, and management apparently of narrow government employment aid. These interfering, UG said, were agreeing with institutional and national financial schemes and indicate its invention reply to employees restriction. UG also condemned the review process for not offering the university the chance to reply to initial discoveries as is usual procedure.

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