The Special Prosecutor has directed the criminal prosecution of Mr Sumaila Abdul–Rahman, the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority and two of his deputies Mr Stephen Yir-eru Engmen and Mr Patrick Seidu for breaches of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA). The Chief Executive of A&QS Consortium Limited, Mr Andrew Kuundaari, will also face criminal prosecution for his role. The two deputy ...

The Ministry of Health has responded to the Auditor General’s latest report on government’s COVID-19 expenditure. In the report, the Auditor General noted that the Ministry of Health on behalf of the Government of Ghana paid an amount of $120,192,379.80 to UNICEF/AVAT for the supply of vaccines, “However, 5,109,600.00 doses of vaccines valued at $38,322,000.00 were supplied to the National ...

Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has said his political coalition does not recognise William Ruto as the President of Kenya and declared the new Kenyan government as “illegitimate”. Mr Ruto beat him in last August’s poll, but Mr Odinga – who appeared at Nairobi’s Kamukunji Stadium along with his running mate Martha Karua, and other allies – repeated claims that ...

The Director of Advocacy at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr. Emmanuel Kojo Asante has added his voice to calls for government to cut down on its expenses by reducing the number of its ministers and appointees. Dr. Asante said the current number of ministries with 86 ministers and deputy ministers is a huge drain on the public ...

The government has been told to at least commit 10% of the Goods and Services budget and 33% of the infrastructure budget of the education sector to basic education. Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) said the government must do this if the country is to invest adequately to build new schools to replace the over 5,000 schools currently under trees and ...

A Vice President of Imani Africa Mr Bright Simons has said that the government has still not made any progress with insurance firms, offshore investment and individuals regarding the Domestic Debt Exchange programme despite the agreements it reached with the Ghana Association Bankers (GAB). On Monday, January 23, the Government of Ghana and the GAB reached an agreement on the new terms ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong has described himself as an underdog ahead of the contest to elect a flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2024 general elections. However, he said, he is confident of winning the internal election. Mr Agyapong will be competing against Former Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen, Former Agric Minister, Dr Owusu ...

The financial sector cleanup that was undertaken by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance which resulted in the collapse of nine domestic banks and several Microfinance companies, badly affected the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 general elections, Member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah, has said. He noted that ...

The Minority in Parliament has hinted at more damning revelations on how the government expended COVID Funds when Parliament resumes in February. It comes on the back of revelations in the Auditor General’s Special Report on Ghana’s COVID-19 expenditure which revealed serious procurement breaches and financial misappropriation. According to the report, the Ministry of Health paid over 10 million cedis ...

The Government of Ghana and the Ghana Association of Banks (GAB) have made a headway on the terms of participation of Banks in the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP). The new agreement includes final improvements to the terms of the programme. These include; an agreement to pay a 5% coupon for 2023 and a single coupon rate for each of ...