President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo will go down in history as arguably the worst ruler in the fourth republic, many experts and well-meaning Ghanaians have said.
Untold hardship visited Ghanaians ever since his administration took the reins of power. Apart from massive corruption, the already hard-up citizens would have to struggle more just to make ends meet given the outrageous price hikes.
Here are some of the legacies the Akufo-Addo administration will remembered for.
1. PDS fraudulent deal
2. $10 million wasted on Cocoa roads audit
3. $4.5 million AfCON profligate expenditure
4. Ministry of Finance pays Ghc 1 million to Kroll and Associates for no work done – Auditor General
5. 12 top state infrastructure designs sole-sourced to one firm thus David Adjaye.
6. GHC283 million paid in judgement debt
7. GHC3 million renovated warehouses defective.
8. Appointment of Kwame Owusu (Iceman) as board chairman for GRA after installing 11 ACs in two bedroom facility.
9. GHC9.6 billion lost to corruption since 2017
10. $17,000 per hour private jet hired by president to tour the world.
11. Mac Manu fingered in $1.5 billion MPS deal.
12. Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company increases allowances by 400%.
13. Minister of state at Presidency busted over bribery attempt on Star FM Journalist over galamsey exposé.
14. NHIS divert Ghc 17 million into private investment company.
15. GHC3.9 million to buy condoms.
16. Appointment of MD for non-existing Keta Sea Port.
17. Militants train at Presidency Annex (Osu Castle).
18. Presidential staffers caught on video over galamsey bribes.
19. Fight at GNPC between CEO and Board Chairman (Freddy Blay) over procurement.
20. Ghana included in European Commission dirty money list.
21. Ministry of Health anti-snake serum procurement breaches.
22. Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections turn war zone.
23. $12 million worth of fertiliser for Planting for Food and Jobs missing.
24. Government trades Aisha Huang for Chinese loan.
25. Government busted in $12 million Oslo consulate deal.
26. GHC18k entertainment allowances for Sanitation Minister.
27. $12.5 million sole-sourced contract for blood distribution drones.
28. Presidential staffers list increases from 998 to 1,614.
29. GHC297,585 missing at Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly.
30. $14 million blown by Ministry of Tourism over capacity building.
31. $89 million Kelni GVG deal
32. $58 million National Cathedral Dugout
33. Cash-for-seat scandal
34. Meek Mill video shot the at Presidency
35. Cedi Depreciated from GHC5 to almost GHC18 to a dollar
36. Crazy food price increment (Inflation almost at 100%)
37. Crazy fuel price increments
38. Explosive Galamsey report from respected Prof. Frimpong-Boateng
39. Spending GHC22billion to solve GHC8billion problem (Banking sector clean up)
40. Returning back to IMF after VOWING not to
41. Misuse of COVID-19 fund
42. Paying GHC88 million for vaccines that were never received
43. Akufo-Addo stoping MPs from sacking his cousin the finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
44. President blows 62 million on foreign travels in 9 months in 2019
45. Sputnik V deal
46. GH¢800,000 allocated for development of a website
47. Seized gold bars worth $150 million, guns, pickups from galamsey sites missing
48. $12 million worth of fertilisers disappear yet again
49. Akufo-Addo grants $24 million tax waivers to his in-law to build private hotel at plush airport area
50. Jubilee House, GRA boss caught in fuel smuggling scandal, sweeps matter under the carpet and allowed illegal vessel to escape Takoradi Ports
