The Ghana Scandals Index

Indexing government scandals one at a time

#corruption #incompetence #nepotism
Gov’t appoints Director for non-existent Keta sea port

President Akufo-Addo has been criticized for appointing Dr Alexander Y. Adusei Jr as the Director of the non-existent Keta Port. The appointment is unnecessary and a willful rape on the country’s m...

March 29, 2019

Ministry of Finance holds Kenkey Party to celebrate Cedi appreciation et al

The Ministry of Finance led by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta has organized a party to celebrate what it calls Ghana's hat-trick; the successful raising of an eurobond, completion of IMF-E...

March 22, 2019

Pro-NPP militia trains at Presidency Annex

Despite the President’s rhetoric on peace and security, Joy News investigations have found, his former personal bodyguard leads a pro-government militia group. The explosive documentary aired on...

March 7, 2019

Garbage takeover frontage of Jubilee House

Just days after the President indicated in his 2019 State of the Nation Address that sanitation in the country had improved significantly since he promised to make Accra the cleanest city, there ar...

Feb. 25, 2019

Cedi falls to record low

The cedi has weakened 8.6 percent this year, the most among more than 140 currencies tracked by Bloomberg, after the central bank unexpectedly cut its benchmark rate in January. The cedi decline...

Feb. 22, 2019

Board Chairman and CEO of GNPC fight over procurement at GNPC

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Authority (GNPC) Dr. K.K Sarpong has accused the board chair of the firm Freddie Blay of undermining his authority. In a statement add...

Feb. 16, 2019

Ghana included in European Commission dirty money list

The European Commission has added Ghana to a list of 23 countries with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks. Ghana and her West Africa...

Feb. 14, 2019

Govt recruiting NPP party boys for election 2020 security team

The Government has started the process of recruiting New Patriotic Party (NPP) boys who are to be trained as election security team. The main job on the line for this election security team is t...

Feb. 8, 2019

MoH involved in anti-snake serum procurement breaches

In a ruling of the committee on Legal & Administrative review of the PPA Board issued at its 6th meeting held on Wednesday 13th March 2019, the PPA ruled that the decision by the Ministry of Health...

Feb. 8, 2019

Ayawaso By-election: Gun-toting macho men fire shots

Some macho men in National Security branded t-shirts who are suspected to be members of the governing party, NPP's vigilante group attacked some voters at the La-Bawaleshie Presby JHS polling stati...

Jan. 31, 2019

Wave of killings 'threaten right to life, liberty of Ghanaians' - Amnesty International

The Ghana chapter of international human rights campaigner, Amnesty International, has urged security agencies to swiftly clampdown on the recent wave of seeming arranged killings in the country. ...

Jan. 17, 2019

Gov't discontinues prosecution of Chinese 'Galamsey Queen'

State prosecutors have discontinued the trial of ‘Aisha’ Huang and four other Chinese nationals alleged to have carried out illegal mining activities in the country. The State Attorney, Mercy Arthu...

Dec. 19, 2018

Foreign Affairs Minister in near punch with MP

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, was engaged in a heated exchange that nearly resulted in a closed hand with member of parliament for Ningo prampram, Sam George over what the...

Dec. 17, 2018

New bill to make Jan 7, Aug 4 public holidays

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 Mini...

Dec. 13, 2018

GHS18K entertainment 'allawa' for Sanitation Ministry

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 ...

Dec. 12, 2018

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