The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

#corruption #incompetence #nepotism
EC boss, Charlotte Osei, two others removed

The President Nana Akufo-Addo has removed the Electoral Commissioner Charlotte Osei and her two deputies from office for “misbehaviour and incompetence.” The removal is on the recommendation of a c...

June 13, 2018

Sammi Awuku’s Wife Grabs Juicy Feeding Contract At Free Zones Board

Ghana Palaver has reported that a lucrative feeding contract has been packaged by the Executive Secretary of the Ghana Free Zones Authority, Michael Okyere Baafi, for a company owned by Mary Awuku,...

June 12, 2018

GEPA Saga: Klenam blows GHC93k on clothing allowances; $132k for rent

The dismissed CEO of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) Gifty Klenam is being probed by the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) over financial impropriety during her tenure. Doc...

June 7, 2018

Sell ‘cocaine’ if you can’t withstand economic hardship – Minister to traders

Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has asked petty traders in the Kumasi metropolis to venture into the sale of cocaine if they cannot withstand the economic hardship in the country. H...

June 6, 2018

1.2bn dollars for Ghana card is fraud

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has lashed out at Government over the decision to spend $1.2 billion on the National Identification Project (Ghana Card). According...

May 29, 2018

Presidency, GRA, national security in GHC1.88bn petroleum revenue loss

The government has lost GHC1.88bn in petroleum revenue leakages through nefarious actors within the Ghana Revenue Authority, the presidency and national security, the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Dist...

May 29, 2018

Peter Mac Manu in conflict of interest at GPHA

The four Unions with the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has asked government to investigate the board Chairman of GPHA, Peter Mac Manu. They are asking the President to as a matter of ur...

May 24, 2018

GFA President solicited GHS8m as bribe for Nana Addo and Bawumia

GFA President Kwasi Nyantakyi has been caught on tape soliciting for bribe in the name of the President Nana Akufo-Addo and his Vice President Dr Bawumia. The amount involved is 8 million dollars -...

May 22, 2018

Audit Service uncovers massive rot at NHIA

The struggling National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has been cited for wanton financial waste and abuse of procurement processes. Audit work done by the Ghana Audit Service shows that the ...

May 21, 2018

Prez Akufo-Addo prints Presidential Diaries, another thing he criticized in the past

President Nana Akufo-Addo, then flagbearer of the opposition NPP in 2015 alleged at an International Conference of the party's at the NH Grand in Amsterdam that President John Mahama’s administrati...

May 19, 2018

$89 million contract between Ghana and KelniGVG a rip-off

IMANI Africa boss, Franklin Cudjoe has argued that a $89 million contract between Ghana and KelniGVG is a careless duplication of jobs and a needless drain on the country’s scarce resources. Mr ...

May 17, 2018

CEO of GCMCL awards fictitious contracts

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company Limited (GCMCL) Frances Essiam has been accused of awarding several contracts worth millions of Ghana cedis without rec...

May 7, 2018

Over 200 undervalued bus sale cost GHC1m loss in shady Metro Mass Transit deal

JoyNews investigations have uncovered that the state-owned Metro Mass Transit Limited lost over ¢1 million, as a result of under-valuation of more than 200 buses sold by the company. The buses ...

May 2, 2018

Government interfering with civil service structure

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), has raised concerns over what it calls government’s interference in the structure of the Civil Service. CLOGSAG complained ab...

April 30, 2018

Akufo-Addo submits 998 presidential staffers to Parliament

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has forwarded a list of 998 current staffers and ministers of state at the presidency to Parliament. The publication of the list of presidential staffers fr...

April 20, 2018

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