Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan misapplied GHc586,824 MP's Common Fund meant for development projects


The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly has misappropriated Five Hundred and Eighty-Six Thousand, 824 Ghana Cedis meant for development projects under the District Assemblies Common Fund Allocation to pay judgment debt and ex-gratia for assembly members. 

Five hundred thousand Ghana Cedis was paid to United Domestic Metal Ware as judgement debt while sixty-five thousand Ghana Cedis was misappropriated from the Common Fund to settle Assembly Members ex-gratia. These came up during the Public Accounts Committee sitting in Parliament. 

The Committee sat to consider the report of the Auditor-General on the utilization of the District Assemblies Common Fund and other statutory Funds for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 financial year.  Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly also appeared.

 
Listen to report filed by Radio Ghana's Parliamentary Correspondents, Dominic Hlordzi and Augustus Acquaye in the attached audio.


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