POLITICS

The 2021 Auditor-General’s report has unearthed irregularities amo.unting to GH¢1,080,913,824. It comprises tax irregularities, cash irregularities, indebtedness/loans/advances, payroll irregularities, stores/procurement irregularities, rent irregularities and contract irregularities. The A-G detected payroll irregularities amounting to GH¢5,583,498.00. Included in the total payroll irregularities was unearned salaries totalling GH¢1,501,740.00 paid to 146 officers of 47 institutions under the Ministry of Health. Lands For Sale ...

The 2021 Auditor-General’s report has revealed that some 146 staff in various institutions under the ministry of health squandered some ¢1.5 million of “unearned salaries”. This was part of the total GH¢1,080,913,824 irregularities detected by the Auditor-General which comprises tax irregularities, cash irregularities, indebtedness/loans/advances, payroll irregularities, stores/procurement irregularities, rent irregularities and contract irregularities. Lands For Sale In Acres at Aburi ...

Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo has indicated that she will now have more time to concentrate on her parliamentary duties now that she has handed over her ministerial responsibilities. Until Thursday, July 28, Ms Safo was the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection though proceeding on leave for over one year and her office temporarily managed by ...

Businessman Seidu Agongo and his company, Agricult, did not cause any financial loss to the state by supplying the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) with Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser, a cocoa farmer who benefitted from the agrochemical, has told Justice Clemence Honyenuga’s court. According to Mr Thomas Amo Amankwaa, the fertiliser was a “great saviour” to cocoa farmers and must be brought ...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has said it terminated investigation into a complaint of alleged financial malfeasance filed against the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea for lack of evidence. The probe was stopped in July. The OSP said the “complainant admitted that he filed the complaint without any basis and that he was paid ...

The Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA) has stressed on their calls for the government to discontinue the tax exemptions given to expatriate businesses and entities in Ghana. Spokesperson for GUTA, Joseph Paddy alleged that aside from being detrimental to indigenous businesses, the privilege of tax exemption for expatriates is seriously abused at the expense of the state’s revenue. “For example ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says a process to match biometric details of workers in the national identity system at the National Identification Authority (NIA) and same details at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has detected over 148,000 workers with multiple identities. “It may just mean that, maybe, they have not just registered for the Ghana Card. That ...

Founder and CEO of the Mikado Group of Companies, formerly the KAMA group Dr. Michael Agyekum Addo has urged the government to review the free Senior High School programme. According to him, despite the good intentions of the programme and the long-term benefit, the programme as it currently pertains is unsustainable. Speaking on Business Focus on TV3 Monday August 15, ...

Lawyers of Oliver Barker-Vormawor, lead convenor of #FixTheCountry Movement have described the Bill of Indictment (BI) filed against their client as “bad in law.” Justice Srem Sai, lead counsel for Oliver Barker-Vormawor told the Ashaiman District Court that the nature of the charges preferred against the accused offend the rules of “Duplicity and Multiplicity.” “Our argument is that the particulars ...

The military government in Mali has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of a “neo-colonial, paternalistic and condescending” attitude. The junta asked Mr Macron to stop his criticism of the Malian army and stirring “ethnic hatred”. It follows Mr Macron’s remarks last week during his tour in West Africa that regional states had the responsibility to ensure Malian people can “express ...