Ghana Corruption Tracker

Find all corruption cases in Ghana and their respective accountability measures implemented by government.

Kwabena Adu-Boahene and the National Signals Bureau Scandal

In March 2025, the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, was indicted by the Attorney-General for corruption and corruption-related offences.Mr Adu-Boahene was accused of diverting funds for the procurement of a cyber defence software meant for the NSB, a specialised security agency under the National Security Council. The software was procured from the Israeli company RLC Company Limited. The Attorney-General claimed on March 24, 2025, that Mr Adu-Boahene and his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng, had transferred state funds to their personal accounts and accounts of a company called BNC Communications Bureau, which they both allegedly owned.

The “Contracts for Sale” scandal

On August 21, 2019, freelance investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni published an investigative documentary titled “Contracts for Sale. ” The documentary revealed that a company owned by the CEO of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Adjenim Boateng Adjei, won multiple government contracts and sold the contracts to other companies to execute. The company, Talent Discovery Limited, was established after A.B. Adjei became the PPA CEO, with him and his brother-in-law, Francis Arhin, as shareholders and directors.

The SML Scandal

Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) was registered to do business on February 14, 2017. Four months after registration, the government, through the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Ministry of Finance, handpicked the company for revenue assurance contracts. On three separate occasions, the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) denied the request to use the single-source procurement method to engage SML, but the GRA disregarded the PPA and proceeded to award the contracts.

Sedina Tamakloe and the MASLOC Scandal

Sedina Christine Attionu Tamakloe served as Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), a state agency established to support small businesses with financing. After leaving office in January 2017 following the change in government, allegations of corruption, procurement illegalities and financial malfeasance rocked her stewardship at MASLOC. Investigations by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) exposed the wrongdoings, and the Attorney-General charged her with misappropriating and mismanaging funds meant for MASLOC’s operations between 2013 and 2016. Sedina Christine Attionu Tamakloe was charged in 2019. A former Chief Operating Officer of MASLOC, Daniel Axim, was charged alongside Sedina.

The NSA Payroll Fraud

Between 2018 and 2024, the National Service Authority’s Central Management System, a digital platform introduced to manage postings, validation and payments for national service personnel, was used to insert tens of thousands of “ghost names” into the National Service payroll. These were names of non-existent individuals, ineligible persons, minors, elderly people, and fictitious graduates from non-existent institutions. Allowances paid to the ghost beneficiaries were allegedly siphoned off by officials of the NSA, including the Executive Director, Osei Assibey Antwi, and his deputy, Gifty Oware Aboagye. The scandal was first uncovered through investigative reporting by The Fourth Estate.

The NAFCO Scandal

The National Food and Buffer Stock Company Limited (NAFCO) is a state-owned enterprise mandated to procure, store, and distribute food commodities to stabilise prices and safeguard national food security. Because of this role, NAFCO routinely manages large public disbursements and is required to operate under public procurement regulations, financial controls, and accountability standards.

The Sky Train Scandal

The Accra Sky Train plan was unveiled in November 2018 as a proposed elevated rail network for Accra under a nine-month agreement between the Ministry of Railways Development and Ai SkyTrain Consortium. The arrangement required feasibility studies and Cabinet and Parliamentary approval before construction, which was expected to start in January 2020.