Ghana’s Ato Forson demands stronger protection of public funds
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on MyJoyOnline
Ghanaian Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson has called on local authorities to recover lost public funds and strengthen budget controls. In Tamale, he said every cedi should fund concrete services at a meeting on the Auditor-General’s 2025 report, MyJoyOnline reports.
Ghanaian Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson has called on regional and local authorities to strengthen efforts to recover lost public funds and financial controls, so that every cedi collected by the state is accounted for, according to MyJoyOnline.
At a meeting in Tamale devoted to the Auditor-General’s 2025 report, the minister said that waste and the mismanagement of public resources undermined the provision of essential services. The meeting, held under the theme “Recovering every cedi”, brought together regional ministers and officials from metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies, as part of the call to recover public funds.
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