SA evacuation saga: There are standards in public office – Fiifi Boafo to Ablakwa

Former Head of Public Relations at COCOBOD, Fiifi Boafo, has questioned Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s claim to being meticulous, citing alleged lapses in the documentation of payments made to Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa.

Boafo argued that proper accounting procedures required recipients of public funds to sign for the money they received, making it unacceptable for payments to be recorded without the necessary acknowledgements.

He said the Minority had established that some people received money without signing for it, raising questions about the minister’s supervision of the evacuation expenditure.

“The Minority have established, Joy News have established, saying that people took money and they did not sign. Is that what meticulous people do?” he asked on Joy News.

Boafo stressed that public officials handling government funds were expected to maintain proper records to account for every payment made.

He said the minister’s description as a meticulous public official should be measured against the standards expected in public office, particularly when millions of cedis were involved.

“Honourable, I am surprised you said that. I am surprised because there are standards in public office, and Honourable, you are very much aware of that,” he said.

Boafo maintained that the failure to obtain signatures from recipients created accountability gaps that needed to be explained, insisting that the handling of the Ghc49.7 million expenditure did not reflect the level of attention to detail expected from a meticulous minister.

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