The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

#corruption #incompetence #nepotism
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

$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

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

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