Mass violation of Public Procurement Law

Over 70% of public institutions in Ghana have failed to comply with the public procurement law which mandates entities to submit a procurement plan, head of Public Relations at the Public Procurement Authority has said.

As if that is not enough, it has also emerged that even for the few entities who submit their procurement plans to the Authority, the budget releases to them are completely different from the plans they provide, Rhoda Appiah told Myjoyonline.com.

This paints a grim picture of the implementation of the law that is meant to fight corruption, particularly, political corruption in the form of clientelism and patronage.

An investigation conducted by Myjoyonline.com together with an independent auditor and governance researcher, Dr Valentine Mensah, shows that as at January 2018, only 96 entities, out of over 1,000 procurement entities in the country had complied with section 21 of Public Procurement Act, the law that requires all public entities to submit their procurement plans to the Authority, a situation which is a complete violation of the law.