General News of Friday, 20 April 2018Source: adomonline.comSSNIT Software Saga: Allegations against Ernest Thompson senseless – LawyerMr. Ernest Thompson has been charged with causing financial loss to the stateLawyer of former Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) boss, Mr. Abednego Tetteh Mensah, has described as senseless, the charge of causing financial loss to the state as leveled against his client, Ernest Thompson in the award of a $72 million Operating Business Suite (OBS) contract. Mr. Ernest Thompson and three others have been indicted for alleged financial misdeeds in the award of an OBS contract for SSNIT. The other three are former Head of IT Department, Caleb Kwaku Afaglo; former OBS project manager; John Hagan Mensah and Juliet Hasana Kramah of IT company, Perfect Business Systems. A press briefing by SSNIT on receiving the findings of an investigation conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the saga revealed. We have a project manager and they had to talk with him”, he added.

Source: GhanaWeb April 20, 2018 13:41 UTC