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Vol 63 No 20

Published 6th October 2022


Ghana

Penalise the plunder, say protestors

Civil society groups are up in arms about the Auditor-General's refusal to use his powers to recover $1.7bn in misappropriated public funds

A coalition of civil society groups is protesting the unwillingness of the Auditor-General, Johnson Asiedu, to act on his latest annual audit of government expenditure, published last month, which revealed misappropriated and unauthorised public expenditure totalling 17 billion Ghana cedis (US$1.7bn) last year, a 36% increase on the previous year.

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