The Minority caucus in Parliament has formally written to the Auditor General requesting for a special audit into an amount of GHC280.3million spent on food and other relief packages by government under the Coronavirus Alleviation Program(CAP).
This comes after the Minority’s press conference on Tuesday accusing the government of misapplying the funds.
It thus called on the Auditor General to probe how the funds were expended following suspicions that the ruling party had diverted the funds into their campaign for the upcoming polls.
“The low coverage and haphazard implementation of these interventions during the lockdown period, specifically the distribution of free hot meals and dry food to the vulnerable, as well as the supply of tankers of water to deprived households, give us cause for concern that these funds were not judiciously utilised by the government,” Minority Spokesperson on Finance said at the Press conference.
The minority in its letter to the Auditor General and jointly signed by the Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson and the Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka stated that a special audit into government’s expenditure under the CAP was imperative giving the widespread reports that state-sponsored COVID relief items meant for the vulnerable, were being sold in the market by functionaries of the ruling NPP in Kumasi and other parts of the country.
“Furthermore, we have in our possession, an audio recording from Kumasi based Silva FM, in which Market women at Tafo Pankrono have confirmed that eggs meant for distribution to vulnerable groups under the CAP have been diverted and sold on the market by persons associated with government functionaries in the area”, the letter read in part.
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