NABPTEX official fumbles over GHC130,000 luxury spending

A bad PR by two officials of the entity was the greatest damage to the damning reports of the National Board for Professional and Technical Examination’s (NAPBTEX) alleged plans to blow a sum of GH¢126,373.40 on the newly appointed Board at the Akosombo Hotel.

The two officials made an embarrassing moment of themselves as they attempted to handle the excesses on radio over management’s decision to allot a sum of GH¢130,000 from NABPTEX portion of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) for the luxury spending at Akosombo.

The Head of Administration at NABPTEX, Isaac Boamah was entangled in poor defense when host of Anopa Kasapa Morning Show on Kasapa 102.5 FM on Tuesday queried why the institution settled on such amount for the supposed workshop.

Realizing that the Head of Administration was fumbling with responses to the issues being probed by the host, Mrs. Sheila Naah-Boamah, the Acting Executive Secretary of NABPTEX grabbed the phone to tidy the conversation, but struggled to control the damage caused.

The New Crusading Guide newspaper on Monday published that the Acting Executive Secretary, Mrs. Sheila Naa Boamah, was planning to splash a whooping sum of GH¢126,373.40 cedis on the newly appointed Board at the Akosombo Hotel.

It said documents it had intercepted revealed that the Acting Executive Secretary who was appointed by the President, Nana Akufo Addo on 13th March 2017 allegedly ordered the administrator to release a sum of GH¢130,000 cedis from NABPTEX portion of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) for the said workshop.

An amount of 210,000 Ghana Cedis was said to have been allocated by GET fund to NABPTEX this year for Faculty Development and Research.

Out of this amount , the Executive Secretary, according to the paper, was requesting for a whopping 130,000 Cedis to blow in 3 days under the guise of “Orientation and Strategic Workshop” for Board members at the Akosombo Hotel from 24th August to 27th August 2017.