Indexing government scandals one at a time
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
Government has laid a new bill before Parliament to amend the Public Holidays Act to include January 7 and August 4 as statutory public holidays. The new bill which was laid by the Interior Minist…
Dec. 13, 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
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 exp…
Dec. 3, 2018
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 t…
Nov. 26, 2018
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 ro…
Nov. 21, 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 f…
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 three …
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 ta…
Nov. 14, 2018
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 prosecuti…
Nov. 5, 2018
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 amoun…
Nov. 1, 2018
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 fo…
Oct. 24, 2018
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 Executive …
Oct. 24, 2018
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 latest …
Oct. 19, 2018