… The plaintiff argues that once public funds are transferred into personal accounts, they become difficult to monitor, audit and recover, thereby frustrating the constitutional mandate of the Auditor-General and increasing the risk of diversion, misuse and financial loss to the st …
… The concerns were raised during proceedings of the Public Accounts Committee, where the Auditor-General flagged gaps in documentation relating to hundreds of bags and cartons of food delivered to selected schools under the government’s food supply programme. …
… The sweeping directive follows a legislative review of the Auditor-General’s report, which exposed a severe breach of the country’s labour and wage laws by the school’s administrative authorities. …
… The Auditor-General’s report further indicated that the building has suffered additional structural challenges over the years, including damage to parts of its external fittings, which may require government intervention and funding for repairs. …
… The matter forms part of a GH¢223,127 payment claim flagged by the Auditor-General in the special audit report on GH¢68.7 billion government arrears. …
… However, he questioned why the Auditor-General continues to report various financial infractions within the public sector annually, suggesting that there may be weaknesses either in the enforcement of existing laws or within the system itself. …
… The institute also referenced the 2024 Auditor-General’s report, which identified GH¢18.42 billion in irregularities involving public boards, corporations and statutory institutions. …
… But a 2024 performance audit by the Auditor-General found weak enforcement and poor implementation, leaving communities to manage the problem on their own as plastic pollution is projected to rise sharply by 2040. …
President John Mahama has announced that the government will begin prosecuting persons indicted in the Auditor-General’s reports this year, as part of renewed efforts to strengthen accountability and intensify the fight against corruption. …
… Mr Agyei, who was addressing this year’s conference of the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, stated that the Auditor-General’s annual reports consistently highlighted breaches of financial regulations, weak internal controls …
A Supreme Court case challenges the constitutionality of allocating District Assemblies Common Fund to MPs, raising important questions about public resource management and accountability.
Heads of senior high schools have alleged that the Ghana National Food Buffer Stock Company has failed to disclose the cost of food items supplied to schools since 2024, complicating auditing and accountability processes. Deliveries are accompanied only by waybills or invoices without stated monetary values, making it difficult for institutions to verify the actual cost of supplies.
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has ordered Anlo-Afiadanyigba Senior High School to immediately pay GH₵10,802 in salary arrears to five casual workers who were illegally underpaid at ₵250 monthly instead of the required ₵490 during the 2024 fiscal year. The school's defence that it had adjusted wages to ₵450 in 2025 was rejected as still below the revised national minimum wage standard.
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has expressed disappointment at the continued neglect of Ghana's 14-storey mission building in New York, which has been significantly underused since 2007 with only four of its floors operational. The Committee noted that the building's underutilisation represents a significant loss of potential revenue and called for urgent steps to fully operationalise the facility or lease it to generate funds for Ghana's foreign missions.
The Public Accounts Committee has questioned the Ministry of Labour and Employment over two Nissan Tiida saloon cars purchased in 2011 that cannot be traced, along with GH¢223,127 in accumulated interest on the claim. The Ministry's Director of Finance told the committee that supporting documentation for the transaction was unavailable and records could not be located.
Hopeson Adorye, Director of Field Operations for the United Party, has praised the government's establishment of the Value for Money Office as a necessary step to strengthen accountability and reduce financial irregularities in public spending, though he questioned why the Auditor-General continues to report annual infractions despite existing procurement laws.
The Institute of Economic Research and Public Policy has raised alarm over what it says are massive revenue leakages in Ghana's petroleum sector, reporting that more than 200 million litres of fuel cannot be accounted for between 2020 and 2025, resulting in tax revenue losses exceeding GH¢600 million. The institute cites weak monitoring systems at ports and throughout the petroleum distribution chain and calls for stricter enforcement, including real-time fuel tracking systems.
Residents of Asaloko, a community of about 1,200 people, collect empty water sachets and exchange them with a nearby sachet-water company for fresh drinking water supplies. The program removes as much as 5 tonnes of sachets from the community annually, addressing Ghana's broader plastic waste challenge, where roughly 840,000 tonnes are generated yearly with less than 10 per cent recycled.
President John Mahama announced that the government will begin prosecuting persons indicted in the Auditor-General's reports this year as part of efforts to strengthen accountability and fight corruption. The government also plans to introduce a Public Officers Code of Conduct Bill and a new asset declaration enforcement regime.
Controller and Accountant-General Kwasi Agyei has called on public institutions to confront persistent audit infractions with honesty and resolve, noting that Auditor-General reports consistently show breaches of financial regulations, weak internal controls, and non-compliance across ministries and assemblies that result in significant financial losses.