Individual members of Parliament allocated funds to monitor GETFund projects? What happens to the monitoring units of GETFund, district assemblies, Ministry of Education etc responsible for that? We must prevent fruitless and wasteful spending - it is looting in disguise
If the Chief Justice said this, then we are in trouble - after all the unconstitutional things the president has done?
I don’t know the standard for judges’ independence but for accountants, he or she should not only be independent but must be seen as independent
First,I am not sure that it lies in the mouth of a Chief Justice to be heaping such lavish praise on a president she is supposed to be independent from.
It sounds almost partisan and raises questions about her ability to lead a judiciary, which is supposed to be independent of an overbearing executive.
Second,on the evidence of what we have seen,President Akufo-Addo cannot lay claim to a belief in the rule of law.The impunity,lawlessness,thuggery(and I dare say terrorism),he has superintendend and his blatant refusal to punish clear wrongdoing by his appointees belie the Chief Justice's claims.
AS MORE BUSINESSES COLLAPSE & OTHERS PACK OUT OF GHANA, RESOURCES ACCESS LIMITED BELONGING TO THE BAWUMIAS RECEIVE MORE LUCRATIVE OPAQUE SINGLE-SOURCE CONTRACTS & A COLOSSAL GHS166.7MILLION DIRECT GOVERNMENT PAYMENT
Resources Access Limited, the company owned by the Bawumia family continues to have remarkable and unfettered access to the resources of Ghana through multiple opaque single-source procurements, even though Vice President Bawumia in opposition persistently vilified and harangued President Mahama over single-source procurements.
Vice President Bawumia consistently condemned single-sourcing/sole-sourcing and labeled them as overpriced contracts. (See his September 8, 2016 tweet attached).
Latest intercepted contract documents and payment vouchers reveal that the marauding, unprincipled and nepotistic Bawumia single-source procurement empire is now totally out of control.
Recall that a few weeks ago, I published single-source procurement documents intercepted from the Public Procurement Authority under the Cocoa Roads sector, which the Auditor-General’s findings state unambiguously and depressingly that Ghana’s procurement laws were violently abused in awarding hugely inflated contracts to Cocoa Road contractors including Resources Access Limited, which received the lion’s share of GHS83.7million in that infamous create, loot and share scheme.
Fresh documents in my possession I am currently reviewing, sadly confirm that the Auditor General’s concerns over procurement breaches and inflated single-source contracts are not limited to Cocoa Roads.
The intercepted payment vouchers, which are duly attached for your scrutiny, do confirm that between March 3, 2023 and March 5, 2024, Resources Access Limited owned by the Bawumias has received a staggering GHS83,036,639 in direct payments from the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government.
The contracts awarded to Resources Access Limited under sleazy circumstances include: Rehabilitation of Selected Roads in Teshie Camp, Southern Command, Military Academy Training School Roads (23.45KM & 55,000M2); Partial Reconstruction of Selected Roads in Accra - LOT 1 (44.49KM); Construction of Sunyani By-Pass Outer Ring from Kumasi Berekum Road.
When the other single-sourced, inflated cocoa road contract is added, Resources Access Limited, in a few years, has grabbed a colossal GHS166,768,904 in government single-source contracts and payments.
How does Dr. Mahmoud Bawumia, Ghana’s Vice President and Head of what many now call the Economic Mismanagement Team feel when under his watch, many businesses have shut down, others have been deliberately destroyed, while many multinationals pack out of Ghana due to the debilitating economic conditions he has created, while his family business flourishes with numerous controversial contracts and a whopping GHS166.7million in direct GoG payments?
As more businesses collapse, it has clearly emerged that there are two kinds of economic realities, particularly for corporate Ghana.
The economic reality of nepotistic and crony businesses appears totally different from the economic reality of businesses not owned by relatives, assigns and allies of those in charge.
So as the list of businesses destroyed by this anti-business NPP cabal continues to grow exponentially, businesses belonging to their families and close friends have never had it this great.
Further analysis of contracts awarded to Resources Access Limited point to a disturbing trend of apparent conflict of interest. The Vice President chairs the Ghana Armed Forces Council, and then it turns out that contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of military roads at the Teshie Camp, Southern Command, and the Military Academy Training Schools (MATS) are all awarded to the almighty Resources Access Limited owned by the Vice President’s brother, Abraham Bawumia.
No Vice President and Chair of the Ghana Armed Forces Council in Ghana’s entire history has engaged in this deplorable conduct.
Fiji's long-serving former prime minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for obstructing a police investigation into corruption. https://t.co/wkrxk0UfNU
Fiji's long-serving former prime minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for obstructing a police investigation into corruption. https://t.co/wkrxk0UfNU
Sec 1(3) Where a person under investigation for money laundering is in possession or control of property which the person cannot account for and which is disproportionate to the income of that person from known sources, that person shall be deemed to have committed an offence…
Still wondering why AG advised EOCO not to investigate Hon Cecilia Dapaah for money laundering- could it be because of sec 1(3) of the Anti Money Laundering Act 2020 or the president’s prophecy that her reputation will be restored 🙈
Still wondering why AG advised EOCO not to investigate Hon Cecilia Dapaah for money laundering- could it be because of sec 1(3) of the Anti Money Laundering Act 2020 or the president’s prophecy that her reputation will be restored 🙈
During the Kroll & Associate case No15. Mr. Charles Zwennes and 16. Mr. Yaw Oppong were the lawyers of Kroll &Associates and Snr Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo before Justice Afea who was then a high court judge but now a court of appeal judge
Wait a minute:
How can any individual leader, as in Akufo Addo appoint twenty one (21) additional Court of Appeal judges, bringing the total number of Court of Appeal Judges in Ghana to fifty one(51). Most of these judges may have absolutely nothing to do. This constitutes an abuse of presidential power and discretion.
Even in neighboring Nigeria, they have thirty five (35) Court of Appeal Judges, five judges for each district. How can Ghana have fifty one (51) Court of Appeal justices?
A special assistant to the Second Lady, Samira Bawumia, received GBP17,355 (GHC288,000) to attend a University in UK but he dropped out of the programme after attending only a few online classes from Ghana. Money Gone!
https://t.co/VtN60CRf97 via @The Fourth Estate