Vice President, Mahamadu Bawumia, has asked the staff of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to resist any attempt by politicians to circumvent the rules governing the award of public contracts. He says the authority must act professionally to assist government root out corruption by ensuring that due process is adhered to in the award of … Read more
The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) says its attention has been drawn to the circulation of an anonymous document concerning monies that have been allegedly spent unlawfully by the Commission. In a recent press statement, PURC said no staff has so far claimed to be a member of the so-called “Concerned Group of Staff … Read more
The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) says its attention has been drawn to the circulation of an anonymous document concerning monies that have been allegedly spent unlawfully by the Commission. In a recent press statement, PURC said no staff has so far claimed to be a member of the so-called “Concerned Group of Staff … Read more
Yesterday, I listened to the Minister of Information, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, on Joy FM’s Top Story with Evans Mensah. He was trying to defend the president’s decision to shoot the number of ministers and deputy ministers to a record 110 since this nation was born. After listening to his submission and the tape from his earlier … Read more
Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, and Deputy Majority Leader, Adwoa Sarfo, has been appointed a Minister of State at the presidency in charge of Public Procurement. Her name was among a list of four new ministers of state at the presidency/ministry that was presented to Parliament for vetting and approval. The other three ministers … Read more
President Nana Akufo Addo has appointd Member of Parliament for Dome/Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo as Minister of State in charge of Procurement at the Presidency. Hon. Adwoa Safo until her nomination was the deputy Majority Leader of the Parliament of Ghana. She was the first female MP in Ghana to ascend to the number 2 … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Agyei as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority. Mr Boateng Agyei is heading back to a position he occupied between 2005 and 2010. The communication of the new appointment was contained in a letter dated March 7, 2017. Mr. AGYENIM BOATENG ADJEI … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority in accordance with the Public Procurement Authority Act 2003. The appointment is pending the receipt of the advice of the governing board of the Authority in consultation with the Public Services Commission. Mr. Boateng Adjei served in … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Agyenim Boateng Adjei as the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority in accordance with the Public Procurement Authority Act 2003. The appointment is pending the receipt of the advice of the governing board of the Authority in consultation with the Public Service Commission. Mr. Boateng Adjei served in … Read more
The management of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) spent GHS99,663 on Christmas hampers for 2012, the Auditor General has revealed. According to the latest Auditor General’s report (2014) on public boards, corporations and other statutory institutions, although the amount was released for the purchase and distribution of the hampers in 2012, “the purchase of … Read more
The expectations of Ghanaians with regard to the campaign promise by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP to reduce the burden of taxes imposed on them by the previous Mahama-led NDC government was met yesterday after Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta presented the government’s maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy. The expectations of Ghanaians … Read more
In the continuing exposé on questionable payments at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), it has emerged that the utility regulator paid a little over $400,000 for software and other services to a US-based firm through a contract that was sole-sourced. Documents intercepted by Joy News reveal that PURC first paid $200,000 out of a … Read more
The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has called for the amendment of the current procurement law to empower the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to conduct value for money audit. “I think that the law, as it currently is, should be amended to give authority to the PPA to go into contracts and … Read more
Every contract awarded in the power sector in Ghana followed due process, hence assertions by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that deals in the power sector had no value for money are untenable, John Jinapor, former Deputy Minister of Power, has said. His comment follows claims by Mr Akufo-Addo in his maiden State of the … Read more
Mr Kenneth Kwamina Thompson, the Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, has observed that the widespread corruption in the public sector has taken the country to the dark ages. He, therefore, described Ghana as a ‘‘man drowning and clutching at straws’’ and warned that if the managers of the economy failed to salvage the situation, … Read more
Management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has banned doctors at the hospital from eating from its own canteen, which is currently running at a loss, and has outsourced the feeding of doctors to a food joint outside the hospital called Med Diner, 3FM News can confirm. This hospital’s canteen was built in 1980 to prepare … Read more
Listeners of Oman FM’s morning show “National Agenda” were yesterday (Thursday) held spellbound as the radio station played a voice recording suspected to be that of former Environment Minister Mahama Ayariga, where he could be heard negotiating a contract kickback deal. The setting of the suspected kickback deal was a restaurant as cluttering of cutlery … Read more
Billions of Ghana Cedis are spent each year by the Ghana government buying goods and services for public projects; majority of this is spent in the construction sector. The construction sector worldwide has repeatedly been known to be susceptible to corrupt practices and this has primarily been during the pre-contract procurement stage not to say … Read more
The public has been urged to discard news making the round that the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Richard Anaamo, has undertaken dubious contracts estimated to have led to the country losing over GHC 5 billion. The Daily Statesman newspaper reported that over the last four years, the Director-General of GPHA … Read more
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has criticized the out-going Mahama government’s decision to sign an e-waste contract, days after it lost the general elections. According to the GII, it would have been prudent for the National Democratic Congress government to have allowed such new contracts to be handled by the new government. The Minister for … Read more