Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has referred Finance Ministry to the Attorney-General for prosecution over some procurement breaches.
The 2024 Auditor-General’s report flagged an infraction of GH₵ 1.3 million cedi from the Finance Ministry.
During the Committee’s sitting on Monday, August 25, 2025, it stated that the report says the Finance Ministry awarded “three different contracts for hotel services totalling GH₵ 1,369,042.35, whose individual values were above threshold.”
The contracts were: “conference workshop for the preparation of the 2024 budget implementation instructions at GH₵ 145,075.31, residential and conference package for the annual Budget Divisional Staff retreat at GH₵ 956,170.23, and conference workshop for the preparation of the 2024 budget implementation instructions for all covered entities at GH₵ 293,796.81.”
According to the report, the contracts are in contravention of section 18 of the Public Procurement Act.
In its response, the Ministry said it encountered “practical challenges in adhering to procurement thresholds for hotel services under the PPA.”
The Ministry noted that plans are advanced to train their divisional heads on how to follow the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) in all procurement henceforth.
Ranking Member on the Committee, Samuel Atta-Mills, ruling on the matter referred the Ministry to the Attorney-General for action to be taken to ensure such things do not recur in the future.
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