The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) has asked President Kufour to take action against officials at the National Health Insurance Scheme for engaging in malfeasance and other corrupt activities.
The call follows damning revelation by a 2005 audit report the CJA claimed to have stumbled upon.
The report titled “ Disbursement made by the National Health Insurance Council from January- September, 2005” accused officials at the Council for breaching several aspects of Public Procurement Act, causing the nation several thousands of cedis the CJA revealed.
The breach according to the CJA was to avoid competitive tendering.
At a press conference in Accra on Wednesday the spokes person of the CJA Mr. Kwasi Pratt said the state did not only incur a loss of ¢58.6 million through the issuance of 17,000 wall posters which were not accounted for, but low and inferior printers were paid for at an outrageously high price.
What was more baffling according to Mr. Pratt was the failure by the Ministry of health to take punitive action to rid the scheme of the corruption and to implement the recommendation put forward by the Audit Service.
Mr. Pratt has therefore called on government to prosecute all officials whose activities contravened the procurement law, and to take steps to retrieve monies lost or misappropriated.
This he said would bring true meaning to the rule of law preached by the Kufour administration.
