The Deputy Finance Minister, Thomas Nyarko Ampem, revealed that auditors have uncovered questionable transactions involving a GHS 4.8 million contract under the Ministry of Defence. He said that about GHS 9.4 million, supported by forged Stores Receipt Advice (SRA) documents that were used to justify payments for goods that were never delivered, was uncovered.
According to him, the contract under the Ministry of Defence was awarded to a company to supply vehicles intended for border surveillance and monitoring during the 2024 general election.
He explained that although a Stores Receipt Advice dated October 12, 2024, confirmed that the vehicles had been received, auditors later established that the vehicles were never delivered.
The forged documentation was allegedly used to support a request for payment to the Ministry of Finance.
However, the former minister of defense, Hon. Dominic Nitiwul, strongly opposed the allegations. According to him, the ministry never signed any contract to buy vehicles for the purposes of the 2024 elections. He said the ministry made a request for vehicles, and all the contracts of the various agencies were done at the agency of national security.
“There is no way that the Ministry of Defense will pay 4.4 million Cedis because of receipts,” he said.
