{"id":229148,"date":"2026-03-31T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fall-out-of-auditor-generals-special-report-rans-logistics-refunds-gh%c2%a219-1m-to-state-yet-to-account-for-7000-tonnes-of-rice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:26:14","slug":"ghana-fall-out-of-auditor-generals-special-report-rans-logistics-refunds-gh%c2%a219-1m-to-state-yet-to-account-for-7000-tonnes-of-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-fall-out-of-auditor-generals-special-report-rans-logistics-refunds-gh%c2%a219-1m-to-state-yet-to-account-for-7000-tonnes-of-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Fall Out of Auditor-General&#8217;s Special Report &#8211; Rans Logistics Refunds Gh\u00a219.1m to State&#8230;Yet to Account for 7,000 Tonnes of Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Thomas Nyarko Ampem, has revealed that Rans Logistics has refunded GH\u00a219.1 million to the state, just one week after the Auditor-General&#8217;s special report on multiple infractions was made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The company was cited in the report and flagged for overpayment in relation to grain transportation and the disappearance of thousands of tonnes of rice and maize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mr Ampem made the revelation when the Ministry of Finance appeared before the Public Accounts Committee&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310333.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 Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Thomas Nyarko Ampem, has revealed that Rans Logistics has refunded GH\u00a219.1 million to the state, just one week after the Auditor-General&#8217;s special report on multiple infractions was made public. The company was cited in the report and flagged for overpayment in relation to grain transportation and the disappearance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229149,"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":[4313,258,256,41780,9140,54055,4508,4509,13233,257,54054,22161,5144,5085,254,5881,54056,12988],"class_list":["post-229148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-account","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auditorgenerals","tag-fall","tag-gh19-1m","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-logistics","tag-news","tag-rans","tag-refunds","tag-report","tag-rice","tag-south-africa-today","tag-special","tag-state-yet","tag-tonnes"],"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\/229148","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=229148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}