For 29 months, a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence received over GHS427 million in unearned salaries – an average of more than GHS14 million per month. Frank Oliver Kpodo was at the time serving as Director of Procurement at the Ministry of Defence. His unearned salaries featured prominently in a recent report by the Auditor-General on the processes by which government employees were paid from January 2023 to June 2025. The report details a near-broken system leaking money to thousands of civil servants, most of whom had done little to no work over the period. The Auditor-General reported that more than 6,000 government employees received more than GHS800 million in unearned salaries, but Mr Kpodo alone allegedly received more than half of this amount – that is, GHS427 million. Read more here: shorturl.at/PIYrL
