The National Democratic Congress has said the Akufo-Addo government spent some ₵82.5 million of the Covid funds that accrued to Ghana’s treasury on the campaigns of its 277 parliamentary candidates during the 2020 polls.
In the NDC’s view, while “it is very clear” that the COVID-19 pandemic “may have been a national health disaster for Ghana, it was a bonanza and an avenue for officials of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government and the New Patriotic Party, to engage in the most obscene plundering of state resources never seen before in Ghana’s history”.
At a press conference on the Auditor-General’s report on the Covid funds, the NDC’s National Communications Officer, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, told journalists on Wednesday, 1 February 2023: “You may recall that at the height of the pandemic in 2020, an audio recording of one Madam Felicia Tetteh, a former Municipal Chief Executive and parliamentary candidate of the NPP in the Sagnarigu Constituency in the Northern Region, emerged with grim details about how she, as a parliamentary candidate, was given GHS100,000 of COVID-19 funds while another GHS200,000 was given to her Constituency Chairman”.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com
