President Akufo-Addo says COVID funds were not misappropriated, as being put out in the public domain.

According to him, it was the government that order audit of the funds, therefore, has nothing to hide.

“…it was Government that asked for the COVID funds to be audited, and I can assure this House that nothing dishonourable was done with the COVID funds. The responses from the Ministers for Health and Finance, on January 23 and 25, 2023, respectively, have sufficiently laid to rest the queries from the Auditor General’s report, and I believe any objective scrutiny of these statements from the Health and Finance Ministries would justify this conclude went ahead to name what the funds were used for included.”

The funds were used to procure Veronica buckets, hand sanitizer, and allocation of GH¢518 million soft loans to 302,515 for mall scales businesses and medium enterprises.

President Akufo-Addo made the statement while delivering Parliament on the State of National Address (SONA) yesterday