Diana Hamilton and husband
Gospel Musician, Diana Hamilton has confirmed an allegation that her husband’s name was once used to steal the country’s money.
According to her, some individuals used the man’s name to collect salaries in a non-existent hospital.
Speaking on Joy Prime’s newly introduced all-women talk show, 6th Sense, the ‘Adom’ hitmaker explained that after her husband left Ghana to reside in the United Kingdom, an acquaintance listed him among workers of a ghost hospital.
She added that her husband was not the only person listed as staff, other names were also listed in the hierarchy of the hoax health facility.
“We found out that somebody he knew, had set up a ‘ghost hospital’ and filled the ‘ghost hospital’ with names and my husband’s name was listed as one of the doctors in the hospital. They were claiming the health insurance and paying all these ‘ghost names’.
“The hospital only existed on paper and it had a whole staff. And according to that hospital, my husband was on study leave and they were paying him and the money was going into someone else’s pocket,” she stated.
The Award-winning musician was contributing to the topic, ‘Plugging Ghana’s Fiscal Leaks, What Are We Not Doing Right?’
According to an Adomonline report, JoyNews’ Editor, Araba Koomson who was shocked by the revelation quizzed if Ghana could ever progress with such illicit behaviours.
“Why do we do these things to ourselves? And then when we are done, we say we don’t have good roads and other social amenities,” she lamented.