Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram and a member of a Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), Sam George, has alleged that workers of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) were paid 100 Ghana Cedis a day as stipend but foreign staff contracted by GBC to cover the 13th African Games were paid 1000 Ghana Cedis a day as stipend.
He made this allegation in an interview on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News as he addressed the fallout from Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif’s statement to the (PAC) that GBC got paid $3 million to cover the African Games.
However, GBC Director-General Professor Amin Alhassan, stated that the company benefitted from $105,000 for covering the Games. (Click highlighted text to read full story)
Aside raising issues about the alleged contractual arrangements between GBC and other companies who covered the Games, Member of Parliament Sam George, raised a separate concern about how GBC disbursed the money it received particularly in connection to its workers welfare.
“Even if it was $105,000 that was paid, we need to now understand from GBC how that money was disbursed and who got what and how it was paid because we are told that foreign broadcasters who came through the same GBC were paid 1000 cedis a day as stipend so why were the Ghanaian staff of GBC paid a 100 Ghana cedis.”
“Questions have to be answered…We will do a proper investigation of the issues surrounding the African Games, expenses, releases and disbursement to staff; that will happen.”
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