{"id":58287,"date":"2014-10-21T13:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=58287"},"modified":"2014-10-21T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:35:27","slug":"korle-bu-apologizes-to-indicted-individuals-in-audit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=58287","title":{"rendered":"Korle Bu apologizes to indicted persons in audit report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has apologized to the persons indicted in a report by the Audit Service , asking some former board members to refund close to 1 million cedis to the hospital.<\/p>\n

The interim report on the 2014 expenditure accounts of the hospital<\/strong><\/span><\/a> published by the Daily Graphic said some individuals were ordered to refund over GHC 900,000 which was misappropriated.<\/p>\n

But the management of the hospital insists that the audit report is not\u00a0 final.<\/p>\n

The management in a statement said ” the management of the hospital is currently in the process of addressing the observations submitted by the Central Government Audit Department of the Audit Service and has not reached a stage where individuals mentioned are to be contacted.”<\/p>\n

The statement also apologized for the embarrassment caused to the named individuals by the report.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the former acting Chief Administrator, Rev Albert Botchway, \u00a0 one of the persons indicted in the interim has denied the charges.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”ASAlaCsnAow4AmZSmRh8rRsY6FveYG9m”] Rev Botchway has denied knowledge of the audit report ordering him and others to refund \u00a0monies spent illegally during his tenure.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> the former Korle Bu CEO said he believes his detractors have a hand in the claims.<\/p>\n

\u201c… I haven\u2019t written an audit report\u2026 Nobody has called me for an audit so I don\u2019t know any report. I don\u2019t even know there is an audit going on. My name is Rev Botway, God is still on his throne. Man may destroy you, but God will not destroy you, so whoever wants to destroy me I leave that person to God. Because as far as I am concerned, \u00a0I don\u2019t know that there is any audit going on\u201d<\/p>\n

Some staff of the hospital earlier accused the Board and Management of the hospital of spending more than Gh\u023b1million on luxury vehicles.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

President of the Korle Bu Senior Staff Association, Charles Ofei-Palm told Citi News<\/strong> they feel vindicated by the Korle Bu Audit report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are some of the things we have been saying so we are not surprised by the report but then it is a good thing that Ghanaians are finally beginning to know the truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have saved Korle Bu of wrongdoing and mismanagement. What is wrong is wrong and what is bad is bad and lets stick to that\u2026 The principles of management must be followed by anybody who takes over the issue of governance in the hospital. Nobody is above the law\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has apologized to the persons indicted in a report by the Audit Service , asking some former board members to refund close to 1 million cedis to the hospital. The interim report on the 2014 expenditure accounts of the hospital published by the Daily Graphic said some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":56878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,43,38],"class_list":["post-58287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}