{"id":3303,"date":"2024-08-23T00:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2024-08-23T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:15:56","slug":"mp-ablakwa-queries-gh%e2%82%b5168m-withdrawal-from-government-coffers-following-african-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MP Ablakwa queries GH\u20b5168m withdrawal from government coffers following African Games.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/32178794.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3304\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>North Tongu MP,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa<\/a>\u00a0has alleged that the Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia government continues to withdraw huge sums of money from the national coffers in the name of the 13th African Games despite the games ending in Accra as far back as March 23, 2024.<br><br>Ablakwa claims that so far, a staggering GH\u20b5168,386,331.00 has been withdrawn in the last few weeks, long after the games.<br><br>On May 17, 2024 \u2014 GH\u20b570,000,000.00 was released to the Sports Ministry under a transaction description: Payment for 13th African Games;<br><br>On July 3, 2024 \u2014 GH\u20b530,000,000.00 was released to the Sports Ministry under a transaction description: Payment for 13th African Games;<br><br>On July 16, 2024 \u2014 GH\u20b530,000,000.00 was released to the Sports Ministry under a transaction description: Payment for 13th African Games;<br><br>On July 16, 2024 \u2014 An additional same-day release of GH\u20b538,386,331.00 to the Sports Ministry under the transaction description: Payment for 13th African Games.<br><br>Mr. Ablakwa stated that these bizarre releases continue despite the Finance Ministry already releasing over GH\u20b5460million before the closing ceremony \u2014 which is an amount far in excess of what&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parliament<\/a>&nbsp;approved.<br><br>He called on the government to explain to Ghanaians what these humongous post-tournament releases are being used for and exactly when the unending payments will stop.<br><br>\u201cThis haemorrhage cannot continue when many sectors are being starved of resources as the economic conditions of Ghanaians deteriorate uncontrollably. Sports minister Mustapha Ussif keeps running from parliamentary accountability but let him know that his days are numbered,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Tongu MP,\u00a0Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa\u00a0has alleged that the Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia government continues to withdraw huge sums of money from the national coffers in the name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}