Maclean Kwofi
The 2022 Auditor General’s report has actually discovered that more than GH¢1.8 countless the funds launched to compensate poultry farmers impacted by the break out of extremely pathogenic bird influenza (bird influenza) illness might not be represented.
The quantity represented 90.41 percent of the GH¢1.9 million launched by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to pay payment to farmers who lost the birds in between 2015 and 2018 to the illness.
“The Ministry of Finance launched a quantity of GH¢1,999,768.10 for the payment of payment to farmers impacted by the break out of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza illness from 2015 to 2018.
“We noted that only GH¢191,730.00 was paid to 10 farmers, leaving GH¢1,808,038.10 unaccounted for,” the 2022 Auditor General’s report on public accounts of ministries, departments and companies revealed.
The auditor basic for that reason advised that the primary director of the MoF need to recuperate the uncounted quantity from the primary director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and make sure that the impacted farmers were appropriately compensated.