GHS auctions Mitsubishi ambulance for GHC350; PAC raises red flag

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 7 years ago

ABRONYE DC SPEAKS ----- “I think some politicians especially the NDC members are witches and should immediately be sent to the Gambaga witch camp because they are no different from them. “So the NDC members expect the NPP ...
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ABRONYE DC SPEAKS ----- “I think some politicians especially the NDC members are witches and should immediately be sent to the Gambaga witch camp because they are no different from them. “So the NDC members expect the NPP government to laugh because of Ibrahim’s conduct. Just imagine the huge money involved, even the person in the middle of this issue has said he will pay the money and so I don’t understand why those around him are fighting for him. “A person who does not have the nation at heart has issued dud cheques to an institution which is against the laws of the country. “Our party is in power now and we have the majority hand in parliament and so if the NDC are not comfortable when people are punished for squandering states money then the majority should make a law that will see to it that all those who are against such act and are always talking about political witch hunting are transferred to the Gambaga witch camp because they are all witches and don’t want the country to move forward” he said.
kofi 7 years ago

heads must roll people must b jailed

heads must roll people must b jailed
Villager 7 years ago

These committees and commissions are USELESS. Just sheer waste of state resources!! Many days of sitting and hefty sitting allowances nothing happens to the offenders.

These committees and commissions are USELESS. Just sheer waste of state resources!! Many days of sitting and hefty sitting allowances nothing happens to the offenders.
EFO KOKU 7 years ago

Say it again. Nothing will happen to anybody because members of the committee will do more serious things. These committees are set up to cause more harm than good because they collect allowances which add up to more debt to ...
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Say it again. Nothing will happen to anybody because members of the committee will do more serious things. These committees are set up to cause more harm than good because they collect allowances which add up to more debt to the already scanty resources. The so called leaders of Ghana are our problems. I remember one auctioneer laughing at the members of the committee because he knows nothing will come out of their findings. Waste of time and money. Only a coup can stop this nonsense. Teshie military range style.
ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

DO U UNDERSTAND WHAT AN AUCTION IS? PPL GO THERE TO BID ON STUFF. THE HIGHEST BIDDER TAKS THE GOODS. IF THE PRICE PURCHASED WAS THE HIGHEST BID THEN THATS WHAT IT IS. WHY DDNT U PAC GO THERE AND BUY THE CAR. SELL THE CAR AND ...
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DO U UNDERSTAND WHAT AN AUCTION IS? PPL GO THERE TO BID ON STUFF. THE HIGHEST BIDDER TAKS THE GOODS. IF THE PRICE PURCHASED WAS THE HIGHEST BID THEN THATS WHAT IT IS. WHY DDNT U PAC GO THERE AND BUY THE CAR. SELL THE CAR AND MADE MONEY? GHS DIDNT SELL THE CAR TO THEIR OWN STAFF LIKE NDC ALWAYS DOES. THEY AUCTIONED OFF THESE ITEMS PUBLICLY TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC..
Bbb,Mahama remains a thief. 7 years ago

Everything is corrupt and corruption .Mahama the inventor of it.

Everything is corrupt and corruption .Mahama the inventor of it.
Zargon 7 years ago

What has mahama done now?? Is it not your party in power? These items are being auctioned under your eyes but keep blaming mahama... nonsense... why don't you stop public institutions from auctioning off items for cheap

What has mahama done now?? Is it not your party in power? These items are being auctioned under your eyes but keep blaming mahama... nonsense... why don't you stop public institutions from auctioning off items for cheap
K.k 7 years ago

It was during Mahama's time these cars were auctioned. This is 2015 Auditors General Report. Get ur facts right zargon.

It was during Mahama's time these cars were auctioned. This is 2015 Auditors General Report. Get ur facts right zargon.
Zargon 7 years ago

In that case I apologise....

In that case I apologise....
Meb 7 years ago

Did any of our leaders stand there to auction. Blame our selfishness, greediness, vanity

Did any of our leaders stand there to auction. Blame our selfishness, greediness, vanity
ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

IN THE NAME OF TRANSPARENCY. PERHAPS ALL STATE AUCTIONS SHOULD BE CENTRALIZED AND MAKE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE TO ALL GHANAIANS. THIS MEANS THERE MUST BE EQUITABLE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING. THERE MUST ALSO BE AN OFFICE OF AUCTION ...
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IN THE NAME OF TRANSPARENCY. PERHAPS ALL STATE AUCTIONS SHOULD BE CENTRALIZED AND MAKE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE TO ALL GHANAIANS. THIS MEANS THERE MUST BE EQUITABLE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING. THERE MUST ALSO BE AN OFFICE OF AUCTIONS AND PROCUREMENT THAT ADMINISTERS SUCH STATE TRUSTS...
aikins (mission accomplished) 7 years ago

Mahama has corrupted all ndc sympathizers, and mind you those cars were all auctioned under his regime.

Mahama has corrupted all ndc sympathizers, and mind you those cars were all auctioned under his regime.
King 7 years ago

Kwasia, was npp in power in 2013

Kwasia, was npp in power in 2013
kodwo Mensah. 7 years ago

This means that this Zargon guy is an illiterate. He should go back and read the whole story. Indeed am not in favour of blaming the former president on the auction at GHS between 2012, 2013 and 2014. Zargon should be mindful ...
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This means that this Zargon guy is an illiterate. He should go back and read the whole story. Indeed am not in favour of blaming the former president on the auction at GHS between 2012, 2013 and 2014. Zargon should be mindful of the fact that the auction was not carried out in 2017. He should not close his eyes to bare facts.
peter proud ii 7 years ago

to answer questions on over 200 missing cars....

to answer questions on over 200 missing cars....
A JOKE 7 years ago

The lithany and magnitude of corruption in GHS over the past years that goes unpunished simply indicates Ghana is not a serious country.This is one organization that many instances of organized crimes are exposed day in day o ...
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The lithany and magnitude of corruption in GHS over the past years that goes unpunished simply indicates Ghana is not a serious country.This is one organization that many instances of organized crimes are exposed day in day out without Government taking a decisive action in punishing culprits.The deliberate arson of the CMS to cover evidence of stolen drugs and other consumables worth million of dolars,ghost names and illegal payments amounting to over 9 million Gh.C and the current auction scandal are just a few.Indeed the corruption and rot in GHS is an open secret to all Ghanaians.What remains a mystery is why Government cannot take decisive action against a key public institution with pervasive endemic corruption that has literally collapse that country's health system resulting in needless deaths from preventable diseases.So many nasty crimes and illegalities are being committed in the GHS with impunity and gusto with the government of the day often turning a blind eye.The GHS for instance is facing a series of litigation battles in the high court for excesses of illegalities tentatively covered by the AG Department.Many of these illegalities and corrupt tendencies are not in the public domain.It is all a deliberate attempt by the highly corrupt hierarchy in the organization to create a culture of silence through fear and panic to allow endemic corruption to fester in the interest of leadership.Ghana's shambolic organizational and institutional ineptitude have to be blamed for these lapses.Where you have a situation where politics,bribery,ethnocentricism,cronyism and nepotism inform key appointments in the GHS and health ministry rather than competence,desire to serve nation and technical ability, a corruption platform is inadvertently created by government with oversight responsibility in political leadership curtailed.That have always being the story in the health ministry and GHS for decades now as far as appointing technocrat from the civil service is concerned.That is why is not uncommon to find the same old faces in the same position for decades committing all manner of illegalities and superintending over gargantuan rot never touched by central government.The strength of the mafia in the GHS far supercede what pertains at the sports ministry in dictating political pace in the country as power brokers.In so doing an appointed Health Minister must submit to the whims and caprices of the corrupt technocrats in the health organization and ministry or blackmailed and kick out.The GHS is a very good example of an organization where politics and political power broking have traditionally and significantly contributed to institutional flaws and failures because of ties with powerful figures in the inner circle of central government who often cover the organization despite the massive rot known to all and sundry.In deed this is one organization where workers have been deliberately implicated in one way or the other and illegally dismissed to cover rot with institutions of laws turning a blind eye.Some of these dismissals with gusto and impunity bother on serious acts of corruption,abuse and infringement on workers fundamental human rights and in all earnesty deliberately executed to cover rot in the organization.Of course a Nana Akuffo Addo's government with a laudable idea of an independent prosecutor is a good initiative and an indication of the government's resolve to fight the corruption canker.However it will be an exercise in futility if workers in public institutions lack the gut to report crimes of these sort often committed by high profile persons in public institutions for fear of recrimination and persecution.The nature of crimes in public institutions is such that they are organized and supervised by organizational leadership but executed by low ranking officers for pittance who also double as spies to corrupt leadership as part of counter measures to keep rot on-going.Unfortunately we have a situation where law enforcement agencies including the high courts remain toothless,ineffective and prone to bribery by corrupt top civil servants napped in the act of corruption.The dubious auctioning for a paltry sum of Gh.C350 will definitely raise eyebrows and will have other workers not involve in the scandalous deal privy to information but will remain selectively mute for fear of recrimination by corrupt higher authority.In this same GHS an accounted was straight away dismissed for inadvertently exposing a foreign accounts to external audit with huge money amounting to millions of dollars stash in there.The accountant's action was not deliberate but he was cruelly but illegally dismissed to cover a crime with the justice system letting him down when the GHS connived with the police,AG and the high court to render his case redundant.In deed there have been numerous instances of such illegal dismissals of so-called 'loud mouths' in the GHS to cover the massive rot in the organization.Corruption in the GHS is indeed well organized,widespread and co-ordinated right from District health organizations through to region under the supervision of corrupt elements at headquarters.Homage paying in the context of bribery with money and materials is a norm for favouritism if indeed one has to survive in the organization.All these are contributing to the lapses and inefficiencies in health service delivery as square pecks are often found in round holes in many instances.The GHS as an organization that needs radical reforms to root out corruption and ensure it performs to the optimum as a key organization.One of the things that clearly baffles we is why some civil servants including technocrats stay at the GHS and health ministry for over 3 decades and even re-engaged after retirement when civil service code calls for transfer or reshuffling particularly of top officials after 5 years of service.One does not need rocket science to know that the longer workers stay in an organization,the well versed they become with the terrain in committing organized institutional crimes. I am yet to see a government with the political will, commitment and guts to institute permanent lasting reforms to cleanse the massive rot and improve efficiency to save the lives of Ghanaians on account of gross institutional failures and dereliction of duty by a bunch of corrupt and irresponsible leadership who are not the least patriotic in service to nation rather than self interest.
ST. GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

KWASIAKWA, WAT ARE U TRYING TO CONVEY? UR WRITE UP IS IMPREGNATED WITH SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. AFTER ALL U HAVE WRITTEN, U STILL FAIL TO DELIVER ANY THOUGHT PROVOKING FINAL OPINIONS. UR THOUGHTS ARE ALL OVE ...
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KWASIAKWA, WAT ARE U TRYING TO CONVEY? UR WRITE UP IS IMPREGNATED WITH SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. AFTER ALL U HAVE WRITTEN, U STILL FAIL TO DELIVER ANY THOUGHT PROVOKING FINAL OPINIONS. UR THOUGHTS ARE ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE. BROFO TANTAN
kk 7 years ago

GHS was totally wrong in selling off our old ambulance . They have longer shelf life so why sell them

GHS was totally wrong in selling off our old ambulance . They have longer shelf life so why sell them
Kofi B 7 years ago

Listen Zargon or whoever, this saga happened during Mahama era so don't even go there . Why don't u NDC folks read , anyway u don't even get it when u read, sadly . Is was Mahama / NDC era when he and the Chief of staff orde ...
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Listen Zargon or whoever, this saga happened during Mahama era so don't even go there . Why don't u NDC folks read , anyway u don't even get it when u read, sadly . Is was Mahama / NDC era when he and the Chief of staff ordered these vehicle to be sold to NDC sycophants in that ministry @ some chicken & chips price . Only in NDC will these corruption happen so do not bring NPP into this . GHANA would have been sold to the Chinese if the NDC had won this election again . Jail all those greedy NDC bastards , simple becus Enough is Enough . Every thing the NDC does have corruption attached , WHY ??
THE CRUSADER 7 years ago

AKROMFOOO AWUDIFO AGYIMIFOO ABONSAMFOO,MO ABO MO HO HO DUA.abba!

AKROMFOOO AWUDIFO AGYIMIFOO ABONSAMFOO,MO ABO MO HO HO DUA.abba!
Kofimensah 7 years ago

Why are actions taken as far back as 2012 being considered only in 2017. Too long. It allows the culprits to get away.The system must be reviewed so that the PAC can be seen to be relevant.

Why are actions taken as far back as 2012 being considered only in 2017. Too long. It allows the culprits to get away.The system must be reviewed so that the PAC can be seen to be relevant.
Stone 7 years ago

I think this car did not have tyres and steering wheel. Even my old Toyota corolla I sold was much high than this. Hmmm our leaders are destroying the nation. what future are you creating for our children. My heart is bleedin ...
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I think this car did not have tyres and steering wheel. Even my old Toyota corolla I sold was much high than this. Hmmm our leaders are destroying the nation. what future are you creating for our children. My heart is bleeding.
Meb 7 years ago

Please hear their plea. Jail them only 350months not to SIN in the free society again

Please hear their plea. Jail them only 350months not to SIN in the free society again
Carlito 7 years ago

It is only when you don't know the state of a vehicle before it is declared obsolete for auction that's when u complain. A govt vehicle used for more than 10 years is borla

It is only when you don't know the state of a vehicle before it is declared obsolete for auction that's when u complain. A govt vehicle used for more than 10 years is borla
Kwame 7 years ago

NDC legacy. Corruption unlimited. No wonder Mahama lost by nearly one million votes.
NDC should go into voluntary liquidation and the founder should commit suicide in public as an apology for the Generals he killed for the ...
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NDC legacy. Corruption unlimited. No wonder Mahama lost by nearly one million votes.
NDC should go into voluntary liquidation and the founder should commit suicide in public as an apology for the Generals he killed for the so called corruption in 1979.
nana@ 7 years ago

Ghanaians are all corrupt.
The politicians, the clergy, the Academia and what have even babies in bellies are thinking of how to get rich.
Citizens of this country travel and work hard , bought cars and sent home only to pa ...
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Ghanaians are all corrupt.
The politicians, the clergy, the Academia and what have even babies in bellies are thinking of how to get rich.
Citizens of this country travel and work hard , bought cars and sent home only to pay duties that are more than the buying price.
Yet when those cars are confiscated they are sold as scrab to useless faceless people in our country. Govt. vehicles are auctioned for pepper and salt.
Agya Kwabena 7 years ago

Please name the officer that bought this vehicle so that his personal house could also be auctioned for 500 cedis.

Please name the officer that bought this vehicle so that his personal house could also be auctioned for 500 cedis.
James Dapaah 7 years ago

Justice must prevail, de auctioneers, valuers, buyers n all involved shd b jailed else I wld never vote for npp again.

Justice must prevail, de auctioneers, valuers, buyers n all involved shd b jailed else I wld never vote for npp again.

GHS auctions Mitsubishi ambulance for GHC350; PAC raises red flag

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