Open AccessThe Consequences of Public Procurement and Its Associated Irregularities in Ghana
Author(s) -
Emmanuel Abeku Essel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
academic and applied research in military and public management science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2786-0744
pISSN - 2498-5392
DOI - 10.32565/aarms.2021.1.4
Subject(s) - procurement , parliament , transparency (behavior) , database transaction , business , audit , government (linguistics) , public administration , civil society , public sector , goods and services , chief procurement officer , accounting , economics , political science , law , marketing , economy , politics , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
Ghana spends a large number of its public resources on the acquisition of goods, works and services with most of them being sourced through Public Procurement. The country in its quest to ensure transparency and efficiency in its public transaction established the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) and clothed it with powers by an Act of Parliament to discharge the given responsibilities. However, since 2003 when the 4th Republican rule was instituted, not a single government regime has exited from office without recourse to irregularities associated with the procurement processes as reported by the Auditor General’s Annual Reports or reports by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). The goal of this paper is to look at the consequences of these irregularities in the procurement process posed to Ghana’s development. The methodology used in carrying out this study centred mainly on secondary data, and some recommendations have been offered for consideration.