GNPC’s donation to EOCO: Institutional Bribery or Weak Fight Against Corruption?

Press Statement:

Earlier this year during a Press Encounter, President Akufo Addo touted his strong efforts in the fight against corruption by telling Ghanaians how he has increased the budgetary allocations to the offices’ accountability by over 30% last year and over 35% this year.

This meant that institutions like the Auditor General’s Department, CHRAJ and EOCO had their budgetary allocations increased tremendously to support their work.

Now today it has come to public notice that GNPC had to dole out GHC550,000 to EOCO under a Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] program to support the very important job that EOCO does.

Now there are a few fundamental questions that come to mind.

• Did EOCO really need the GHC550,000 to be operational?
• If they did then what happened to the over 65% cumulative increment in their budgetary allocations?
• If they didn’t then why did GNPC dole out GHC 550,000 to a State Agency that didn’t need it or [already had their budget increased] whiles several other State Agencies were in serious need of urgent financial intervention?

The answer to these questions would tell us whether President Akufo Addo was being untruthful when he told us that he has increased budgetary allocations to the offices of accountability by over 65% since 2017 or…

The boards Chairman of GNPC, Mr. Freddy Blay who was being investigated by EOCO for the procurement of 275 buses, compromised the Independence of EOCO in that investigations by approving a GHC550,000 intervention to EOCO [whiles he was still under investigations.]

Over to you Government Communicators, the job na too had for una abi?…Hehehe

Mensah Thompson
Executive Director,
ASEPA
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