{"id":26478,"date":"2014-06-21T14:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2014-06-21T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T17:41:51","slug":"energy-ministry-to-investigate-npas-lavish-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/energy-ministry-to-investigate-npas-lavish-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Ministry to investigate NPA’s lavish spending"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum says it will investigate reports that the National Petroleum Authority is paying $63,000 as monthly rent for its offices at East Legon in Accra.<\/p>\n
This was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Head of Communications, at the Ministry.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has agreed with the public concerns on the high cost of the premises recently rented by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) as offices.<\/p>\n
According to the Minister, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, \u2018\u2019if the NPA \u2018s\u00a0 office was rented at $63,000 per month as has been reported, then that hardly represents prudent use of state resources, no matter how conducive or appropriate the facility is for their operations.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019The Minister would be demanding from the Board and management of the NPA an explanation for such a decision, especially the consideration that went into a decision that runs at variance with philosophy and preferences of His Excellency the President as far as the use of public funds concerned,\u2019\u2019 Mr. Buah stated.<\/p>\n
The public is assured that the Ministry will do everything possible to get to the bottom of this matter.<\/p>\n
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Credit: Energy Ministry<\/p>\n
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The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum says it will investigate reports that the National Petroleum Authority is paying $63,000 as monthly rent for its offices at East Legon in Accra. This was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Head of Communications, at the Ministry. The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has agreed with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1444,4,1006],"yoast_head":"\n