Former Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has revealed that she former President Akufo-Addo refused to support her root out rot from the School Feeding Programme.
According to her, President Akufo-Addo instructed her to audit the School Feeding Programme but later distanced himself from both her and the report when she uncovered massive corruption.
Adwoa Safo revealed that immediately after she was appointed Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, former President Akufo-Addo personally tasked her with auditing the programme with urgency.
She indicated that this request even came up before she was allocated funds to run the ministry.
“Former President Akufo-Addo asked me to audit the School Feeding Programme after my appointment as Gender Minister, even before I had funds to work. He wanted to understand how the funds were utilized,” she stated.
She explained that in the course of her investigations, she invited one of the key figures involved in the programme several times, but the person refused to show up. Instead, she later received a message questioning why she was trying to “destroy” her connection in government.
“I invited one of the women on multiple occasions, but she did not honor it. She later sent a communication to me asking why I was supposedly trying to destroy her connection in government, but I told her I was only doing my job,” Adwoa Safo recounted.
Reagrdless of the opposition she faced in executing her mandate, Adwoa Safo went ahead with the audit and submitted the report to Cabinet, where she discovered that most of the corruption was centered in the Central Region.
According to her, she forwarded the report to the Presidency, but following the public backlash over the revelations, Nana Akufo-Addo backed away from the audit.
“After the backlash, President Akufo-Addo said he was not the one who directed me to do the audit and that I should even shelve it. That is where my problems started,” she sadly recounted.
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🚨ICYMI🇬🇭🗣️: “The rot and corruption I saw in the School Feeding Programme was enormous but President Akufo-Addo, who ordered me to audit it, later denied me,” — Hon. Adwoa Safo, former Gender Minister & MP for Dome-Kwabenya, drops explosive revelations.
📹: Movement Radio
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