Indexing government scandals one at a time
The Public Procurement Authority (PPA), has approved a whopping GH¢3,993,930.36 male condoms supply contract the Ministry of Health awarded to an Indian-owned company. The decision to award the ...
March 30, 2019
A presidential staffer and Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr. Charles Cromwell Bissue, has been caught as the foremost turncoat against efforts to weed out ...
Feb. 27, 2019
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Authority (GNPC) Dr. K.K Sarpong has accused the board chair of the firm Freddie Blay of undermining his authority. In a statement add...
Feb. 16, 2019
The European Commission has added Ghana to a list of 23 countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks. Ghana and her West Africa...
Feb. 14, 2019
The Executive Secretary of Narcotic Control Board has allegedly bought a single office chair for GH¢10,267. According to a receipt going viral on social media, the chair which cost actually costs G...
Feb. 14, 2019
In a ruling of the committee on Legal & Administrative review of the PPA Board issued at its 6th meeting held on Wednesday 13th March 2019, the PPA ruled that the decision by the Ministry of Health...
Feb. 8, 2019
Ghana has recorded a score of 41 out of 100 according to the 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). This performance is still worse than the country's score of 43 in 2016 under the former administ...
Jan. 29, 2019
Some government appointees have been accused of supervising the smuggling of fertilizers into neighboring countries in a move that has caused losses amounting to $12 million. The about 50,000 metri...
Dec. 20, 2018
The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of inflating the price of a building it bought in Norway to be used as Ghana’s Diplomatic mission. According to the Minority spokesperson for Fo...
Dec. 17, 2018
The Minority in Parliament has raised red flags over an GHS18,000 allocation for the Ministry of Water and Sanitation’s entertainment allowance as well as another GHS18,000 allocation for clothing ...
Dec. 12, 2018
The Minority in Parliament has stated that the cost components of the Sinohydro deal by the government was, "over bloated" and has, therefore, called for a reduction in the cost. It said the cost f...
Dec. 11, 2018
Government has engaged a US-based firm through sole-sourcing for the design, installation and operation of an unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). The firm, Messrs. Zipline International Inc, is e...
Dec. 3, 2018
The Minority in Parliament has expressed worry over government’s intention to increase the number of presidential staffers from 998 to 1,614. This is said to have been captured in Appendix 7 of the...
Nov. 21, 2018
A total sum of GH¢297,585.36 is missing at the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly (KKMA). The Audit Service has recommended that three top officials of the Assembly cough out the money. The thre...
Nov. 20, 2018
The Ministry of Tourism has tabled a motion before Parliament for the approval of a sum of $14 million to be used for branding and capacity building of its staff. The said amount is expected to be ...
Nov. 14, 2018