{"id":275054,"date":"2011-01-28T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49932"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:46:56","slug":"kwesi-pratt-raps-president-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/28\/kwesi-pratt-raps-president-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwesi Pratt Raps President Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_36006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36006\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36006\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/21\/i%e2%80%99m-fed-up-with-all-these-noises-from-ndc-npp-pratt\/kwesi-pratt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36006\" title=\"Kwesi Pratt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Kwesi-Pratt.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Pratt Jnr\" width=\"230\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Managing Director of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOne of the men who have often vouched  for the credibility of President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills seems to  be gradually losing confidence in the Head of government.<br \/>\nSpeaking  at a press conference in Accra yesterday, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing  Editor of Insight newspaper and a close associate of the president said,  \u201cIndeed if I ever heard that he (President Mills) has personally been  corrupt, I will be completely shocked and yet this is the report the  Auditor-General has written about 2009; a period in which he was  President of the Republic.\u201d<br \/>\nMr. Pratt, who claimed to have known  the President for well over 30years and could therefore vouch for his  sincerity and personal commitment, wondered why corruption and its  related incidents were so widespread in the Mills administration.<br \/>\nHe noted that \u201cthis is the report of the Auditor General under his reign. It makes the point very clear.\u201d<br \/>\nThe  event was organized by the once vociferous pressure group, Committee  for Joint Action (CJA) which prided itself on being the voice of the  ordinary Ghanaian on the street until Mills and the National Democratic  Congress (NDC) administration assumed the reins of government.<br \/>\nKwesi  Pratt and his colleagues in the CJA, including Kwasi Adu, sought to  expose what they termed as the maladministration and the loss of  financial resources in some government agencies based on the findings of  the Auditor General\u2019s report on the public accounts of the country for  the year 2009.<br \/>\nThe said report contains payroll overpayment which  amounted to a whopping GH\u00a22.49billion, constituting 90.3% of  irregularities in the public sector.<br \/>\nOut of this amount,  GH\u00a22,484,934,415 occurred mainly as a result of payroll irregularities  of Ghana\u2019s foreign missions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) where there  was failure to promptly delete the names of staff who no longer worked  with those embassies.<br \/>\nWithin the jurisdiction of the Ministry of  Finance and Economic Planning, irregularities also led to a total loss  of GH\u00a211,993,035.<br \/>\nThe Ministry was thus said to have no clear  policy guidelines to regulate the payment of allowances to officials  working with Ministers of the Ministry. The Ministry justified this by  indicating that the officials involved worked overtime and some during  weekends, hence they were granted standard monthly allowances pegged at  the dollar rate, and which amounted to more than their gross monthly  salaries.<br \/>\nAt the Ministry of Health, the audit uncovered a huge  loss of GH\u00a26,121,298, including the detection of non-adherence to  financial rules which resulted in misappropriation of funds amounting to  GH\u00a2140,683 by hospital officials. Failure to obtain expenditure  supporting documents to substantiate payments amounted to GH\u00a2282,958.<br \/>\nThe  Director of the National Centre for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine  at Korle Bu was for instance detected to have awarded a contract worth  GH\u00a210,000 to a private auditing firm without the express consent and  approval of the Auditor General.<br \/>\nIrregularities at the Ministry  of Interior also amounted to GH\u00a29,586,816 including cash irregularities,  acts of malfeasance such as revenue misappropriation, police exhibits  released without authenticating documents, un-acquitted vouchers and  un-receipted transfers.<br \/>\nIn view of these and many other  staggering revelations, Mr. Pratt could not but note, \u201cThat clearly  should emphasise the point that personal sincerity, personal commitment  and so on is not sufficient and that something else needs to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the men who have often vouched for the credibility of President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills seems to be gradually losing confidence in the Head of government. 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