The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

#corruption #incompetence #nepotism
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

Metro Mass MD caught in alleged corruption

The Managing Director of the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) , Bennet Aboagye and his personal assistant have been caught up in a massive alleged corruption in the procurement of some 300 buses for the st...

April 17, 2018

Akufo-Addo appoints 3 CEOs with 10 deputies for 3 Dev’t Authorities

President Akufo-Addo has appointed three persons to act as chief executives and 10 others as deputy chief executives for three of the development authorities created by his government to advance th...

April 13, 2018

Sports Ministry involved in visa racketeering

The Sports Ministry and the National Sports Authority (NSA) have been accused of facilitating the acquisition of visas for 50 'Journalists' who have been deported from Australia. They had trave...

April 3, 2018

Kennedy Agyapong's wife gets GHC100.2m sole sourced streetlight contract

NPP Member of Parliament for Assin Central Honourable Kennedy Agyapong has gone all out in defense of his wife’s 100,260,000 million cedis sole-sourced contract from the Energy Ministry, saying tha...

March 28, 2018

Sister-in-law to NLA boss gets 11 contracts in one day

Eleven contracts awarded to the sister-in-law of the Chief Executive of the National Lotteries Authority Kofi Osei Ameyaw has raised questions of conflict of interest. The CEO approved the contr...

March 14, 2018

Procurement Minister to face Parliament over GHC28.8m MASLOC sole sourcing

Parliament is set to question the Procurement Minister over claims Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) CEO failed to go through due process in the award of a GH¢28.8 million contract. A...

March 13, 2018

Ghana at 60 committee orders Ghana flags from China

The Ghana at 60 Committee Chairman Ken Amankwah has defended the decision of the Ghana at 60 Committee to order Ghana flags from China. Speaking on CitiFM’s Point Blank on Eyewitness news, he sa...

March 8, 2018

Alarm over 1 million cedis MIT program for heads of Youth agencies

The Minority is demanding an audit into what it claims to be frivolous expenses and a possible case of causing financial loss to the state by the Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh in a one mi...

March 1, 2018

Presidency gifted NPP GH¢5 million for Cape Coast Conference-Obiri Boahen

Details emerging from an audio recording which captures the voice believed to be that of that Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen reveals that the Presiden...

Feb. 27, 2018

Ghana records worst corruption performance in six years

Ghana has recorded its worst performance in the last six years in its fight against corruption, the latest corruption perception index (CPI) has revealed. The country dropped three points from i...

Feb. 22, 2018

Exton Cubic floors government in court

A High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo has ruled in favour of Exton Cubic Limited in a suit it filed challenging the revocation of their mining lease by the Lands and Na...

Feb. 8, 2018

Fisheries Minister kicks out Director from office

Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Elizabeth Naa Afoley Quaye has attacked the Ministry's Director of Finance and Administration, Cecilia Ezuah in a bid to forcibly remove from her position. ...

Jan. 29, 2018

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