'This is an organised crime' - Mills scolds MoH over GH¢10 million car loan debt

Ranking Member of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Samuel Atta Mills, has criticised the Ministry of Health (MoH) over the alleged failure to recover about GH¢10 million in outstanding car loans issued to some officials.

Atta Mills described the arrangement as “organised crime” when officials of the Ministry appeared before the PAC on Thursday, October 8, 2026, to answer questions about vehicles provided to officials under a car loan scheme.

According to him, some beneficiaries who did not qualify to use official vehicles based on their salaries were allegedly given cars under an arrangement that allowed them to determine when and how they would repay the loans.

“We know these people don’t qualify to drive cars because of their salaries, and then we bypass the system. We give them their cars, and they choose when and how they are going to pay,” he said.

The Ranking Member questioned why the Ministry had allowed such an arrangement and raised concerns about its efforts to recover the outstanding amounts.

“If this isn’t organised crime, I don’t know what else it is. This is organised crime, being encouraged by the Minister of Health,” Atta Mills said.

He also demanded details of beneficiaries who have retired or died without fully settling their loans.

Atta Mills said the Ministry must establish whether some of the vehicles were still in the possession of relatives of deceased beneficiaries despite outstanding payments.

He subsequently called on the Minister of Health to take immediate action to recover the vehicles and funds owed to the state.

“This is organised crime, Minister of Health. Put a stop to it,” he said.

Atta Mills also questioned the Ministry’s explanation that details of the beneficiaries and vehicles had been forwarded to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

He argued that the responsibility for recovering vehicles issued under the Ministry’s scheme should primarily lie with the Ministry itself.

“Was it DVLA who gave them those cars? Was it DVLA who organised that crime?” he asked.

He called for the establishment of a dedicated recovery unit within the Ministry to track down beneficiaries who had failed to meet their obligations.

“What you need to do is you need to have a recovery unit, or a recovery team who will go and collect all these cars,” he said.

Atta Mills further called for stronger measures to retrieve vehicles that were allegedly obtained fraudulently or had not been fully paid for.

“Somebody who will stop you in the middle of the highway and take the car away from you because you got it fraudulently,” he said.

“You organised this crime, and then you blame everybody else. Whilst you are the criminals,” he added.

Watch the video below:



NA/VPO