The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has
accused the John Dramani Mahama administration of paying GHS500million to a
company with no contractual agreement with the state.According to the
party, cabinet has given the go-ahead for the use of the 10 per cent of the
District Assembly’s Common Fund allocated to the Youth Employment Agency (YEA)
for the illegal payment.
This was revealed by the Policy Advisor of the
NPP, Mr Boakye Agyarko, at a news conference at the party’s headquarters in
Accra on Wednesday 16 November.
Mr Agyarko said: “This amount is meant to
pay for 45,000 workers who are actually on the payroll of the various district
assemblies. So, the assemblies are responsible for paying the wages of the
45,000 and not the service provider. This act of corruption is a matter for
which Ghanaians must demand and deserve answers.
“We also need to note
the fact that the board of the Youth Employment Agency is being asked to take
all necessary steps to ratify the sanitation contract for 2013 to 2015. Since
this contract has expired and not in operation, why will they ratify it by back
dating? They try to justify the necessity by claiming that sanitation activity
could not be brought to an abrupt end countrywide. Yet this is not the case for
nurses, teachers and other essential service workers who have active ongoing
contracts yet have not been paid their salaries, which are many months in
arrears,” he added.
Mr Agyarko further disclosed: “This illegal payment
for non-existent contract is related to a previous scheme dating back to 2012,
the same year that some $2billion of unbudgeted funds were spent in a reckless
and corrupt way to fund John Mahama’s election bid,” adding: “The Auditor
General’s report on the infamous Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial
Development Agency (GYEEDA) highlighted the misappropriation of public funds,
fraudulent transfers and illegal payments to various entities linked to friends
and families of President John Mahama.” |
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