The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament opened its Tuesday, October 6, session to address a staggering GH¢5.2 billion in financial irregularities recorded by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in 2025. Of that total, GH¢4.8 billion stemmed from tax infractions, prompting the Committee to demand concrete measures from the relevant authorities to curb the breaches.
Chairperson Abena Osei‑Asare warned that the scale of the irregularities is especially troubling given the recurrence of similar findings in successive audit reports. She said the Committee will focus on whether institutions have taken concrete steps to correct the weaknesses identified in prior audits.
"A legitimate concern of the Ghanaian public is that many other findings appear year after year," Osei‑Asare said. She added that repeated appearances of the same institutions for identical control failures suggest a deeper problem: a failure to learn. "If the same institution is cited repeatedly for the same control failure, then we are no longer dealing with just audit findings. We are dealing with a failure to learn," she explained. "We are now going to ask what changed because of the audit. So that is what audit should be telling us what changed or what has changed as a result of the audit," she added.
The Committee stressed its determination to prevent a cycle in which institutions repeatedly appear before it, provide explanations and return the following year with the same unresolved issues. Meanwhile, the Committee will not consider the special audit reports on the 13th All African Games and the Ghana Embassy in Washington, DC, after the Auditor‑General withdrew the reports.
