Mustapha Ussif and Okudzeto Ablakwa
The Communicator for the Movement for Change, Solomon Nkansah, has urged the Mahama government’s anti-corruption team, Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL), to investigate the Ministry of Youth and Sports over an alleged debt of GH¢486 million.
He accused the sports ministry of spending a whopping $250 million to host the All-African Games, with the money not properly accounted for.
The Movement for Change communicator noted that his team petitioned the office of the Special Prosecutor to hold the ministry accountable for the expenditure, but there was no positive feedback.
“I heard the Ministry of Youth and Sports is owing about GH¢486 million. Was it not the same ministry that spent close to $250 million on the All-African Games? We petitioned the Special Prosecutor on how those monies were expended.
“They used almost $16 million to renovate hostels on the Legon campus; meanwhile, when I went there, it was just air conditioners that had been fixed. The woman that said she used $15 million to cook, we need to look into it,” he said during a panel discussion on TV3.
He further called on the ORAL, led by North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP)
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to probe the sports ministry over the debt.
“There needs to be proper accountability and audit. So, the ORAL team should come in, and it even goes beyond that because we know the people who misused the money,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Youth and Sports are yet to respond to claims of owing GH¢486 million.
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A senior communicator for the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has revealed that the Ministry of Youth and Sports owes approximately 486 million Ghana cedis, yet spent huge amount on the African Games.
He further alleged that the Sports Minister allocated $16 million for… pic.twitter.com/BdGZsaeeY1
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