The National Youth Authority (NYA) misapplied GHS215, 100.00, according to the Auditor General’s report of 2015.
The report said out of GHS450, 000.00 released to the NYA secretariat as feeding grant for the Authority’s eleven Youth Leadership Skills Training Institutes across the country for the 1st term of 2014 academic year after the 2014 World Cup, GHS234, 900.00 was transferred to nine institutions and part of the balance of GHS215, 100.00 disbursed as administrative cost to the Youth Leadership Institutions and regional secretariats and remaining GHS56, 400.00 “kept and used by the Authority without accounting for it.”
According to the report, “This contravened Regulations 179(1&2) of FAR, 2004 (LI 1802) which states among others that a head of department may not authorise payment to be made out of funds earmarked for specific activities for purposes other than those activities.”
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has therefore been charged to make sure the Authority “accounts for the GHS56, 400.00 and the Executive Director duly sanctioned for misapplying a total of GHS215, 100.00.”
Mr Ras Mubarak, current MP for Kumbungu was the head of the NYA within the period.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
