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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 million cedis Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Program held last year.

The group does not understand how such a whopping amount of money will be spent on such a program with an extra 300,000 cedis on travel, boarding and lodging expenses.

Kumbugu MP Ras Mubarak who described the expenses as frivolous wondered why the government had to spend that amount on 13 officials for a training program in the US when GIMPA could easily have organized a similar program for them at a cheaper cost.

March 1, 2018

References:

• https://www.myjoyonline.com/news/minority-blows-alarm-over-1m-cedis-mit-program-for-heads-of-youth-agencies/
• https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Minority-blows-alarm-over-1-million-cedis-MIT-program-for-heads-of-Youth-agencies-630730
• https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/NSS-boss-justifies-300-000-expenditure-for-MIT-programme-630794
• http://citifmonline.com/2018/03/02/nss-boss-justifies-300000-expenditure-for-mit-programme/
• http://starrfm.com.gh/2018/03/01/napo-accused-blowing-370k-train-13-people-us/
• https://yen.com.gh/106735-education-minister-accused-blowing-370k-train-13-people-us.html#106735
• https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Government-to-summon-NSS-boss-over-300-000-MIT-programme-631645