The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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Gov't sole-sources $12.5m contract for blood distribution drones

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

Amewu admits return of dumsor

Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu has admitted that the country is currently faced with challenges in the power sector. John Peter Amewu, who had earlier debunked assertions that Ghana is returning...

Nov. 26, 2018

GES orders headteachers to line pupils on street to welcome Akufo-Addo

The District Chief Executive of Asuogyaman in a letter addressed to the District Director of education asked the headteachers of the schools to release some students to line up along the principal ...

Nov. 21, 2018

Minority resists increase in presidential staffers from 998 to 1,614

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

GH¢297,585 missing at KKMA

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

Tourism Ministry to spend $14m on capacity building and branding

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

EOCO suspends Regional Director for ‘advising’ Akufo-Addo to prosecute his corrupt officials

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has suspended its Eastern Regional Director, Fred Dzeny for asking President Akufo-Addo to show leadership in the fight against corruption by prosecu...

Nov. 5, 2018

2-bedroom residence renovated with Ghc1m

The Director General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Kwame Owusu, has defended the renovation of his 2-bedroom official Cantonments residence at the cost of GHc 1 million, despite concerns the amo...

Nov. 1, 2018

GHS1.5m rot uncovered at EPA

An investigation by Corruption Watch has uncovered that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sunk, at least, GHS1.5 million into questionable contracts. Two of the EPA’s last three Executiv...

Oct. 24, 2018

GMA boss blows thousands of Cedis in 1 night on food bought from his own hotel

The Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Mr. Kwame Owusu blew GH₵135,125 (the old Ghana cedis equivalent of ₵1,351,250,000) one night on food and GH₵10,652 on another occasion on food ...

Oct. 24, 2018

Financial & Insurance sector grows negative 24 months in a row

For the past two years – since first-quarter of 2017 – the financial and insurance sector of the economy, which are jointly assessed, has experienced contracted growth consecutively; with the lates...

Oct. 19, 2018

Govt Has No Policy Document On Job Creation – NYA Boss

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA) Emmanuel Asigri has disclosed the Akufo-Addo government has no strategic plan for creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youth in...

Oct. 18, 2018

Sole sourced Unipass deal to provide services already been provided at even higher cost

The Ministry of Trade, under the supervision of the Minister, Alan Kyeremanteng has awarded a 10-year sole sourced contract to Nick Danso’s Ghana Link Network Services Limited with its overseas par...

Oct. 11, 2018

Ghana travels with largest delegation to UN conference

Ghana seems to have chalked a rather negative record feat at the United Nations Assembly after presenting a twenty two-man delegation led by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to the world body’s ...

Oct. 10, 2018

PMMC board adjusts allowances upwards

There has been an upward adjustments in allowances for the chairman and the board members of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) Limited. In one instance, the increase was over 700 per c...

Oct. 10, 2018

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