Financial Irregularities In Assemblies: part seven

Financial Irregularities In Assemblies: part seven

Agona West Assembly Failed to Utilized MP’s Common Funds - GH¢405,320.31.

The Agona West Municipal is one of the seventeen (17) MMDAs in the Central Region of Ghana. Its capital is Agona Swedru.

According to the auditor general's 2018 report, it has been revealed that, the Agona West Assembly Failed to Utilized MP’s Common Funds - GH¢405,320.31.

The Member of Parliament’s (MP’s) Constituency Fund is annually
allocated and released quarterly by the Administrator of Common Fund to
support the MP’s Constituency Development Projects in order to improve the living condition of the people in the Constituency.

We noted that the Administrator of the DACF transferred a total amount
of GH¢405,320.31 as MP’s Constituency Fund for 2017 and part of 2018 allocations to the MP for Agona West Constituency but the funds were not utilized on any developmental projects or social intervention activities in the Constituency. Details as per quarterly releases are provided below:

On the;
• 1st January 2018, Gh¢ 113,188.09 was released as the 1st and 2nd Quarter of 2017,

• 28th February 2018, Gh¢84,660.42 was released as the 3rd Quarter of 2017,

• 1st June 2018, Gh¢79,619.08 was released as 4th Quarter 2017,

• 26th July 2018, Gh¢61,121.55 was released as the 1st Quarter of 2018,

• 24th October 2018, GH¢66,731.17 was released as the 2nd Quarter of 2018.

Totalling GH¢405,320.31.

The situation has denies the people of Agona West Constituency the benefit of the needed infrastructure and other social interventions for improved living conditions. The non-utilization of the funds also affects the value of the money.

Following this Irregularities, the auditor general recommended to the management of the Assembly to ensure that the MP, Hon. Cynthia Morrison, make use of her Common Fund allocation to finance the Assembly’s planned activities to avoid inflation eroding the value
of the funds allocated.

Stay tuned and watch out for your Assembly.

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