{"id":444468,"date":"2017-12-07T00:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/ghc350m-central-medical-store-rot-government-slow-in-acting-corruption-watch\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T00:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:51:33","slug":"ghc350m-central-medical-store-rot-government-slow-in-acting-corruption-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/ghc350m-central-medical-store-rot-government-slow-in-acting-corruption-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"GHC350m Central medical Store rot: Government slow in acting &#8211; Corruption Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/88468977.295.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Emile Corruption\" title=\"Justice Emile Corruption\" width=\"295\" height=\"233\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former CHRAJ Commissioner, Justice Emile Short<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512607893_666_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">An anti-corruption civil society coalition, Corruption Watch is mounting pressure on government to be quick in prosecuting perpetrators of the Central Medical Stores fire that happened 3 years ago in Tema.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption Watch, comprising of Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), and Africa Center for International Law and Accountability, chided government for not taking action on the 3-year-old incident the claimed GHC350 million worth of drugs. <\/p>\n<p>At a staged pop-up event held on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, at the forecourt of Wisconsin International University College in Accra, Corruption Watch presented to the general public GHC350 million in GHC50 dummy notes.<\/p>\n<p>*\u201c80km of road, 200 6-unit classroom block, 100 CHPS compound, 578 boreholes could have done with the GHC350 yet not a single person has been brought to book*\u201d Nhyira Addo said at the event. <\/p>\n<p>The Central Medical Stores was razed in 2015, and preliminary investigations blamed it on arson.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, 12 officials of the Ghana Health Service who were accused of playing various roles in the arson were also interdicted, but the status of the case is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>A committee established to investigate the case blamed it on arson, naming one Samuel Dogbe, a labourer at the Medical Stores, as being behind the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Auditor-General is conducting a forensic audit on activities of the Central Medical Stores leading to the fire that destroyed the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Almost three years after the incident, no one has been prosecuted or held liable despite suspicion of arson.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, said government will take the needed action after the completion of the forensic audit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXyZQakDUXs\" 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