The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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Acting board chairperson rents her buildings to GRA, pockets GH¢1.4m yearly

Ms. Adelaide Ahwireng, acting board chairperson of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has rented two buildings belonging to her as offices for the revenue collecting agency at cut-throat annual char...

Sept. 2, 2019

NYA boss resigns over procurement breaches

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority, Emmanuel Sin-nyet Asigri, has reportedly resigned, days after a board member of the Authority resigned citing "issues". According to ...

Aug. 31, 2019

PPA boss busted for selling government contracts

Adjenim Boateng Adjei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Public Procurement Authority (PPA) has being unmasked in an exposé over sale of government contracts. In a documentary by Investigative Jo...

Aug. 21, 2019

Close to GH¢100 million spent on capacity building

The Minister for Business Development, Mohammed Ibrahim Awal has revealed that his ministry has so far spent about GHC 100 Million as part of its many initiatives to build capacity of entrepreneurs...

Aug. 14, 2019

$10m wasted on cocoa roads audit

The Minority in Parliament has accused the Akufo-Addo-led NPP government of wasting US$10 million of tax payers’ money to illegally procure audits not sanctioned by the Auditor General. The Mino...

July 26, 2019

AFCON 2019 budget outrageous

The Sports Minister, Isaac Kwame Asiamah has put the expenditure on AFCON 2019 at $4.5million, the same amount paid as prize money for the winner, Algeria. Mr Asiamah who was harangued by the me...

July 24, 2019

MoF pays $1m to Kroll Associates for no work done

The Auditor-General (A-G), Mr. Daniel Yaw Domelevo has accused the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of dishing out payments to third-party organizations even though no work was executed to warrant such pa...

July 23, 2019

Gov’t paid Ghs283 million judgment debt since it took office 2017

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta has disclosed that the current administration has paid 283 million Ghana cedis as judgment debt since it took office in 2017. The Finance Minister was res...

July 14, 2019

Over GHc3 million Duase warehousing projects defective

A four-warehouse project, rehabilitated at the cost of a little over GH₵3 million at Duase in the Manhyia North district of the Ashanti Region and just handed over to the state, has been classified...

July 12, 2019

Former GMA boss accused of corruption appointed to chair GRA board

The former boss of the Ghana Maritime Authority who was in the news for allegedly installing 13 air conditioners in his office, has been appointed chairman board of the Ghana Revenue Authority. ...

July 10, 2019

Sekyere East DCE ‘fingered’ in school feeding rot

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere East in the Ashanti region, Mary Boatemaa Marfo has been accused of misappropriating funds meant for Ghana School Feeding Programme. According to a...

July 8, 2019

Ghana lost GHc9.6bn to corruption since 2017

The Centre for Democratic Development’s (CDD) says its studies show that GHc 9.6 billion has been lost from the public purse as a result of corrupt practices in the country since 2017. At a prem...

June 19, 2019

Mac Manu fingered in $1.5 billion MPS deal

Board Chairman of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Peter Mac Manu, is facing allegations of conflict of interest and outright bias in the scandalous $1.5 billion concession agreement ...

May 31, 2019

GCMC board increased their salaries, allowances by 400%

The Auditor General has indicted the board of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company (GCMC) for the astronomical and illegal increase in the monthly fees and sitting allowances for the chair and...

May 14, 2019

NHIS diverts GHC17m into private investment company

The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused government of illegally transferring over GHC17 million of National Health Insurance Scheme’s funds into a private fund management comp...

April 15, 2019

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