Jubilee House Overspent Its 2020 Compensation Budget By Ghc172.19m

-AD COVID-19 Fund Is Dashed To Party Footsoldiers.

The Akufo-Addo Jubilee House was budgeted to spend Ghc79.62 million on wages and salaries for its staff at the Presidency but by the end of the year 2020, the Presidency had spent Ghc251.81 million as compensation.

This is according to a 2020 Report of the Auditor–General on the Public Sector Accounts of Ghana (General Government).

According to the report, the overspending was done in the Jubilee House without recourse to Parliament.

This means that the Office of the President illegally overspent its compensation budget by a whooping Ghc172.19 million without recourse to Parliament for approval.

In percentage terms, this translates to overspending of 216.26%.

Nobody knows exactly how the extra money was spent by the presidency which heads a government so mired in graft that it cannot even properly account for its COVID-19 expenditure.

In respect of tackling the pandemic, the government had originally requested Ghc1.2 billion, only to later return to Parliament and report that it had spent over Ghc8billion.

Later, the second quotation would also change to much higher amounts with President Akufo-Addo, Vice President Bawumia and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta quoting between Ghc17billion and Ghc20billion as what was spent on COVID-19.

It has emerged that the COVID funds were spent on party apparatchiks.

A video of Felicia Tetteh, the ruling NPP’s 2nd Vice-Chairperson admitted to the decimation of the pandemic fund on partisan hangers-on.