The Info Minister has slammed NDC MPs for demanding an audit into how government expended the Covid-19 Resources.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah reported the request from the opposition into how ¢280.3 million was used to distribute incredibly hot meals to the vulnerable through the lockdown period of time in areas of the nation is only a distraction.
“We would not be distracted,” the Minister claimed at a press meeting Thursday while updating the nation on government’s handling of the pandemic.
The Offoase Ayeribi MP said the minority’s contact is premature due to the fact the economical year is not in excess of and “the things to do are even now ongoing.”
He said the legislation enjoins general public servants to put together their accounts at the finish of the monetary 12 months for auditing just after which the Auditor-Basic can carry a special audit if he deems it required.
Mr Oppong Nkrumah argues that considering the fact that the “accounts for the 2020 fiscal yr are nowhere near to planning,” it is prudent for all that to be compiled ahead of the audit comes.
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta on April 8, presented the policy doc on Covid-19 Alleviation Programme (CAP), looking for acceptance to commit ¢1.2 billion.
He discussed that ¢280 million will go into foods offers and scorching foods although ¢40 million to the Nationwide Buffer Stock Organization.
An added ¢200 million will be used to cater for expenses on water and sanitation, ¢241 million will protect tax waiver for wellness personnel.
Outlining further, Mr Ofori-Atta explained ¢80 million will be put in on the allowance for well being workers, ¢2million will be used to deal with transportation for wellness workers ¢600 million will be disbursed as smooth loans to companies.
But the Minority explained that it has practically been a thirty day period following the lockdown and the Akufo-Addo-led governing administration has failed to present the nation with the expenditure of the resources.
They even further accused the functionaries of the incumbent authorities of misappropriating the funds intended for the susceptible.
“The minimal protection and haphazard implementation of the distribution of cost-free foods and dry meals to the susceptible groups, as properly as the source of water to deprived communities, provides us trigger for worry that the money were not utilized judiciously by government.”
