In April 2017, the Public Accounts Committee slammed officials of the MoFA and an auctioneer to the ministry for contravening the auction laws when 24 vehicles were sold to\u00a0staff\u00a0of the ministry at ridiculously low prices.<\/p>\n
The auctioneer, Alex Adjei, side-stepped all the laws governing the proper disposal of government vehicles and disposed off the vehicles, mostly double-cabin pickups, to the staff of the ministry and pocketed GHc33,203 as his 7% commission on the sale of the vehicles.<\/p>\n
Some of the vehicles were auctioned for GHc1,000 each.<\/p>\n
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PAC also indicted the Ghana Health Service for failing to pay more than GH\u00a261,000 from the auction of nine vehicles into a non-tax revenue account since 2014, as required by the Financial Administration Act.<\/p>\n
The said amount was reportedly hurriedly paid into the account days to the sitting and subsequent indictment.<\/p>\n
PAC had served notice to the GHS to appear before it in respect of the disposal of government vehicles captured in the Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General for 2015.<\/p>\n
According to the regulations on auctions, proceeds from auction sales must be deposited within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
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By: Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parliament has rejected the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) recommendations with respect to the disposal of some government vehicles at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the Ghana Health Service. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, the First Deputy Speaker, Joe Osei-Owusu, was of the view that, some officials who were complicit in the improper disposal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":395269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[360,3,63,533,6599],"yoast_head":"\n