{"id":176747,"date":"2024-07-17T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gh%c2%a22-3m-paid-in-excess-to-food-suppliers-auditor-general-reveals\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:26:38","slug":"ghana-gh%c2%a22-3m-paid-in-excess-to-food-suppliers-auditor-general-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-gh%c2%a22-3m-paid-in-excess-to-food-suppliers-auditor-general-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Gh\u00a22.3m Paid in Excess to Food Suppliers &#8211; Auditor General Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>The Auditor-General recommends that the National Coordinator implement measures to identify, retrieve, and recover all outstanding overpayments and wrongful payments made to caterers, as well as funds generated from the sale of application forms<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The 2023 Auditor-General&#8217;s report on the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has uncovered a financial irregularity, resulting in an excess payment of GH\u00a22.3 million to food suppliers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Launched in 2005, the programme now serves meals to over 4 million&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407170139.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Auditor-General recommends that the National Coordinator implement measures to identify, retrieve, and recover all outstanding overpayments and wrongful payments made to caterers, as well as funds generated from the sale of application forms The 2023 Auditor-General&#8217;s report on the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has uncovered a financial irregularity, resulting in an excess payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8422,29445,5074,6768,49066,4508,4509,257,12206,14326,254,15034],"class_list":["post-176747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auditor","tag-excess","tag-food","tag-general","tag-gh2-3m","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suppliers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}