The Deputy Volta Regional Minister, Rev. Johnson Avuletey has intercepted stolen food items from the Peki Senior High School which was allegedly to be used to bribe an auditor who had been to the school to audit its accounts.
BestNewsGH.com is informed the food items could feed about 200 students for a whole week and is estimated to cost thousands of Ghana Cedis.
Information available to this portal has it that the food items, including
two gallons of oil (25 litres each), bags of rice, bags of maize, cartons of milk, packs of tom brown, packs of tomato paste and even the school’s branded exercise books among others were loaded onto
the school’s pickup truck on Friday, January 10, 2020, destined for the auditor’s house in Ho in the Volta Regional Capital, when the Deputy Volta Regional Minister intercepted them.
Rev. Johnson Avuletey who is not taking the matter lightly, in an interview with the media alleged that the move was part of calculated attempts to sabotage the Free Senior High School programme.
He said it also buttresses suggestions that some school authorities including headmasters, bursars as well as matrons usually divert food items and other supplies for their personal gain.
The deputy regional Minister revealed that he had a tip-off on the matter on Friday, January 10, 2019 around midday and decided to act upon the information, based on which he put some informants and police personnel on the road and the pick-up truck was traced at Sokode-Lokoe near Ho and followed, till it got to the final destination, thus the house of the auditor around Dome, in Ho.
The Deputy Minister, BestNewsGH.com can report wondered why the school authorities would want to extend such a gesture to an auditor if everything was in order, explaining he suspected something untoward may have been discovered by the auditor while looking into the account books of the school.
This portal is told that the police mounted surveillance and waited until the items were off-loaded at the auditor’s house when they zoomed in and reloaded the items and sent them to the Regional Police Headquarters.
He said, “several complaints have come and so, we put together a team because, the school heads and matrons have been making a lot of complaints, yet they are sabotaging the system.”
Source: BestNewsGH.com
