The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

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BOST MD sells contaminated oil to his company

BOST MD Mr. Alfred Obeng Boateng has sold 5 million litres of contaminated oil to his company valued at ghc15 million for a paltry amount of ghc 5 million. The National Petroleum Authority, (NPA...

June 24, 2017

Mayor of Accra spends money on huge billboards

Huge billboards with the portrait of the Greater Accra regional minister, Ishmael Ashitey and the mayor of Accra accompanying inscription “Welcome to Accra, the Proposed Cleanest City in Africa” h...

June 15, 2017

NPP, Nana Addo donate GHC35,000 to Woyome

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome was given an amount of GHC 35,000 by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, when he lost his mother. GHC20,000 of the amo...

June 14, 2017

Northern Regional Minister, Bugri Naabu clash over road contract

A foretaste of a seeming acrimonious relationship between the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed and Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu is getting...

June 8, 2017

GHC10,000 Chinese Embassy gift to Attorney General worrying

Anti-graft body Ghana Integrity Initiative has expressed reservations with Ghana’s Attorney General’s Department for accepting a GHC10,000 gift from the China Embassy. Sun Baohong, the Chinese A...

June 7, 2017

10,000 bags of fertiliser missing

Over 10,000 bags of government-subsidised fertiliser for farmers in the Upper West Region have reportedly disappeared. The bags, meant for distribution for farmers in the Sissala East and Sissal...

May 23, 2017

AG drops case against Delta Force 8

The Attorney General has dropped its case against eight members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force, who allegedly stormed the Kumasi Circuit Court and freed some of their...

May 17, 2017

BOST CEO removes tanker drivers for friends

A plus, a sympathizer of the Akufo-Addo government has been issued license by BOST for the distribution of refined petroleum products from its depots to certain parts of the country. He told the...

May 15, 2017

Otiko accuses Bugri Naabu of taking cows, goats for School Feeding jobs

The Gender Minister has alleged that the Northern Region Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has collected people’s monies, goats, cows and other things from people and promised the...

May 6, 2017

$30m worth of cocaine vanishes at Tema Port

10 bags of suspected cocaine, each weighing 50kgs (500kgs in all) hidden in a consignment of rice with an estimated street value of about $30million has vanished from the Tema Port under mysterious...

April 28, 2017

Conflict of interest allegations hit $2.25bn bond issue

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has found that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, breached certain processes in the issuance of the government’s $2.25bn bond ea...

April 16, 2017

Govt will reward NPP execs with “big contracts”

The Northern regional minister Salifu Saeed has disclosed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will offer “big contracts” to only “few” party executives to strengthen their financial base....

April 14, 2017

Akufo-Addo's government size the biggest in the 4th Republic

The Akufo-Addo government has been criticized for lying to Ghanaians and failing to keep their promise of running a lean government. President Akufo-Addo is the first head of state in the 4th Re...

March 14, 2017

Gh@60 celebration to cost GHC20m

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed the total amount of Ghana’s 60th anniversary to be GHC20 million. An amount described as going contrary to his promise for a modest celebration. The theme ...

Feb. 9, 2017

Boakye Agyarko allegedly bribes Appointment Committee with GHC100, 000

Minority members of the parliament's appointments committee have accused Boakye Agarko, the energy minister-designate, of bribing with GHC100,000 in exchange for them confirming his nomination. ...

Jan. 27, 2017

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