Procurement Conduit For Siphoning Funds
Auditor General (A-G) Daniel Yaw Domelevo has identified procurement as one of the major means through which public servants siphon state funds. According to him, during auditing, the...
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I’ll Surcharge Criminal Public Officers
New Auditor General Daniel Yaw Domelevo has warned that his office will seriously start surcharging public officers who are proven to have misapplied state funds. Mr Domelevo, who was appointed by...
My Appointment By Mahama Ensures I’m Independent
It is imperative for the Auditor General and his office to, at all times, be “independent” of government’s influence so that the public purse can be adequately protected from waste, new Auditor...
My Appointment By Mahama Ensures My Independence
It is imperative for the Auditor General and his office to, at all times, be “independent” of government’s influence so that the public purse can be adequately protected from waste, new Auditor...
Use ABFA – Expert To Govt
If the idea to use the Heritage Fund to finance the Free Senior High School programme would be problematic, the government could fall on other sources such as the Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA)...
OccupyGhana Not Dead
In the coming days pressure group OccupyGhana will be hitting hard at some government agencies over some corrupt acts those agencies are engaged in, Nana Sarpong Agyeman Badu, a member of the group,...
OccupyGhana Elated Over Disallowances and Surcharges Draft Bill
OccupyGhana has announced that it has received a copy of the High Court (Civil Procedure) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules, 2016 (CI 102), which regulates appeals to the High Court from the...
OccupyGhana Elated Over Proposal Passage
OccupyGhana has announced that it has received a copy of the High Court (Civil Procedure) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules, 2016 (CI 102), which regulates appeals to the High Court from the...
GHS7.5bn Lost Through Public Sector Graft In 11yrs
Pressure group OccupyGhana has said at least GHS7.5 billion of the taxpayers’ money was lost through public sector corruption between 2003 and 2014. “In our conservative estimates based on the...
New Law To Force Auditor-General Recover Misappropriated State Funds
The Auditor-General will now be forced to use its constitutional powers of Dis-allowance and Surcharge in the recovery of misappropriated public funds. This comes after anti-corruption group,...
Law Forcing Auditor-General To Recover Misappropriated Funds Passed
A three-year-long campaign by anti-corruption crusaders, OccupyGhana, to get the Auditor-General to enforce its powers to recover misappropriated public funds has yielded success. OccupyGhana’s...
What Changed the Former AG’s Mind On Controversial Judgement Debt Case
Amidu withdraws Woyome suit, on the conviction that the new government as well as the new Attorney General will keep their promise of retrieving all judgement debts wrongfully paid to individuals....
Martin Amidu Backs Down On Woyome’s GHC51.2m Judgement Debt
Former Attorney General, Martin A. Amidu has backed down on his legendary legal attempts at retrieving the GHC51.2 million wrongfully paid to embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome by the State....
Fighting Waste and Corruption Starts At Presidency
The many campaign promises by all the major parties notwithstanding, the 2016 elections were fought principally over only a few critical issues, and of these issues austerity (cost of living) and...
Involve Parliament In Appointment of EC Boss, Others – Mensah-Bonsu
The Minister-designate for parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has bemoaned the executive’s continuous sidelining of parliament in appointing some key officers of certain...
Appointment of EC Chair, Others Must Involve Parliament – Mensah-Bonsu
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has recommended that certain Presidential appointments be made with the approval of Parliament. During his vetting for the Minister for...
Appointment of EC Chair, Others Must Involve Parliament
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has recommended that certain Presidential appointments be made with the approval of Parliament. During his vetting for the Minister for...
Mahama Left Scars On the Conscience of Right-Thinking Northerners – Anthony Karbo
Member of Parliament for Lawra Constituency, Anthony Abayifa Karbo has defended Gender Minister Nominee, Otiko Afisa Djaba’s decision not to withdraw her comments made against the former President...
Fighting Waste and Corruption Starts At the Presidency
The many campaign promises by all the major parties notwithstanding, the 2016 elections were fought principally over only a few critical issues, and of these issues austerity (cost of living) and...
The Ghc7 Billion Expenditure Plus Bawumia’s Latest On NDC Corruption
The Ghc7 billion expenditure has remained undisclosed for years! Vice president Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed that a Ghc7 billion expenditure which was not accounted for in the country’s fiscal...