By Collins Sarkodieh 
The long delayed completion of the National Police Hospital has finally received a clear explanation. Minister of the Interior Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka recently exposed a staggering web of corruption and missing paperwork surrounding the project.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on Pan African TV with veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt Jnr the minister revealed how a contract originally valued at fifteen million pounds somehow turned into an outrageous forty million pounds overpayment.
When Minister Muntaka assumed office he naturally attempted to review the official files for the hospital project. Shockingly he discovered that a formal copy of the contract did not exist anywhere within the government infrastructure. The Ministry of the Interior, the police administration, the Ministry of Finance, and the Attorney General department had absolutely no record of the documentation.
Even more bizarre a dedicated file at the national archives labeled International Hospital was completely empty. Logic dictates that you cannot successfully manage a massive national infrastructure project when multiple state ministries completely lose the foundational paperwork.
Despite the missing paperwork a British company involved in the project aggressively pushed for a meeting with the minister. Refusing to negotiate blindly Muntaka dug deeper and traced old Cabinet letters. His persistence uncovered two highly detailed forensic audits conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crown Agents.
The 2015 PwC audit clearly showed that the contractor had received over forty million pounds in excess payments. The report strongly recommended that the state terminate the agreement and retrieve the funds. Shockingly a second audit authorized by the Cabinet in 2023 yielded the exact same conclusion. The state had essentially paid over forty million pounds extra for a building that started construction over twenty years ago under the John Agyekum Kufuor administration.
Three Factual Insights On Ghana State Audits
- PricewaterhouseCoopers operates globally as a highly trusted professional services network that state governments frequently hire to conduct independent forensic financial investigations.
- The 37 Military Hospital currently serves as the primary national emergency and disaster response medical facility within the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
- The Ministry of the Interior holds the ultimate constitutional mandate to oversee internal security institutions including the Ghana Police Service and its associated welfare projects.
The government has officially run out of patience with the slow moving project. Minister Muntaka confirmed that he has partnered with the Attorney General to formally terminate the troubled contract. The state is currently initiating aggressive legal steps to retrieve every single pound of the cited overpayments.
The ministry plans to re award the construction contract to a competent firm as soon as possible. Turning this stalled site into a fully functioning national emergency center remains an absolute priority for the healthcare system. Ghanaians can finally look forward to seeing their tax money build actual hospital beds instead of disappearing into empty archive folders.
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Source-panafricantv.com