{"id":1195937,"date":"2022-08-31T19:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/government-spent-%c2%a29-1b-on-flagship-programmes-in-2021-auditor-generals-report\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:41:23","slug":"government-spent-%c2%a29-1b-on-flagship-programmes-in-2021-auditor-generals-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/government-spent-%c2%a29-1b-on-flagship-programmes-in-2021-auditor-generals-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Government spent \u00a29.1b on flagship programmes in 2021 &#8211; Auditor-General&#8217;s report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Government spent \u00a29.1b on flagship programmes in 2021 - Auditor-General's report\" title=\"Government spent \u00a29.1b on flagship programmes in 2021 - Auditor-General's report\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The current report of the Auditor-General has detailed government spending on flagship programmes in the year 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Auditor-General report was prepared in pursuance of Section 81 (1) of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921) and Regulation 217 of Public Financial Management Regulations, 2019 L.I. 2378:<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the government spent GHC9.1 billion on its flagship programmes in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>An amount of GHC1,409,997,719.41 was allocated to Free Senior High School Programme-SHS\/TVET while GHC797,190,169.55 was pumped into Fertilizer Subsidy\/Planting for food and jobs project.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the report showed that government\u2019s subsidy for BECE\/WASSCE amounted to GHC114,232,072.16.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, government is reported to have spent an amount of GHC242,283,846.97 on COVID-19 Free Water while COVID-19 Activity &#038; Vaccine during the outbreak covered GHC1,557,846,913.38.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a further breakdown of the government\u2019s expenditures per the Auditor-General\u2019s report:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Expenditures-from-A-G-report.jpg\" alt=\"Government spent \u00a29.1b on flagship programmes in 2021 - Auditor-General's report\" class=\"wp-image-10032162795\"   title=\"Government spent \u00a29.1b on flagship programmes in 2021 - Auditor-General's report\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current report of the Auditor-General has detailed government spending on flagship programmes in the year 2021. The Auditor-General report was prepared in pursuance of Section 81 (1) of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921) and Regulation 217 of Public Financial Management Regulations, 2019 L.I. 2378: According to the report, the government spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[24895,5984,6424,1090,6426,1584,166],"class_list":["post-1195937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-9-1b","tag-auditorgenerals","tag-flagship","tag-government","tag-programmes","tag-report","tag-spent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}