Government has spent approximately GHS9.2 billion on its flagship programs in 2021.

 

Government has spent approximately GHS9.2 billion on its flagship programs  in 2021.

Government has spent approximately GHS9.2 billion on its flagship programmes in 2021. This is according to the Auditor General Report. Tall among the list of programmes are the National Cathedral construction, COVID-19 activities and Free SHS policy.

Of these, an amount of GHS142,762,500 was spent on the national cathedral, and over GHS1.5 billion on COVID-19 activity and vaccines. 

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 GHC9.1 billion on its flagship programmes in 2021.

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.

Also, the report showed that government’s subsidy for BECE/WASSCE amounted to GHC114,232,072.16.

Meanwhile, government is reported to have spent an amount of GHC242,283,846.97 on COVID-19 Free Water while COVID-19 Activity & Vaccine during the outbreak covered GHC1,557,846,913.38.

Below is a further breakdown of the government’s expenditures per the Auditor-General’s report.

Source: Myjoyonline