It’s sounds like the most Ghanaian thing ever – that corruption is discovered deep within the bowels of our most potent anti corruption agency.
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Ghana’s most powerful anti graft agency, has been captured in the claws of a Ghc 2.7m corruption saga.
The sum was ‘accidentally’ transferred to an outside party following a court order to EOCO.
The organisation was supposed to transfer US$366,985 and Gh¢646,188.35 to the account.
However, US$986,024.16 was transferred instead to the account, a significant inflation of the figure by $619,039.16.
The incident is contained in an Auditor General’s report from 2015 currently before Parliament.
The report said that the excess amount was transferred ‘without authority’ and that “we urged management to recover the excess funds of $619,039.16 or provide justification for the transfer of the amount,” but that has yet to happen.
Amazingly, the report found another instance of corruption within the anti-corruption agency, with six retired staff found to have received  “unearned salaries totaling Gh¢22,067.78” between 2013 and 2014.