{"id":229102,"date":"2026-03-31T02:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minority-rejects-value-for-money-bill-warns-of-corruption-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:25:32","slug":"ghana-minority-rejects-value-for-money-bill-warns-of-corruption-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minority-rejects-value-for-money-bill-warns-of-corruption-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Minority Rejects &#8216;Value for Money Bill,&#8217; Warns of Corruption Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">THE Minority in Parliament of Ghana has rejected the Value for Money Office Bill, 2026, cautioning that it could inadvertently promote corruption and create an additional layer of bureaucracy rather than strengthen fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The proposed legislation seeks to establish an independent Value for Money Office to scrutinise public projects before they are finalised, with the objective of reducing waste, curbing contract inflation, and improving accountability in public procurement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">However,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603300592.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 Minority in Parliament of Ghana has rejected the Value for Money Office Bill, 2026, cautioning that it could inadvertently promote corruption and create an additional layer of bureaucracy rather than strengthen fiscal discipline. The proposed legislation seeks to establish an independent Value for Money Office to scrutinise public projects before they are finalised, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7292,4723,4508,4509,12287,5108,257,8440,9590,254,6853],"class_list":["post-229102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-corruption","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minority","tag-money","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/229102","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=229102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}