Indexing government scandals one at a time
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 premie…
June 19, 2019
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 wi…
May 31, 2019
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 m…
May 14, 2019
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 compan…
April 15, 2019
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 co…
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 il…
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 addre…
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 African …
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 GH¢…
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 t…
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 administra…
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 metric …
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 Fore…
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 al…
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 for…
Dec. 11, 2018