Brong Ahafo NSA cited for mismanagement of funds

It has been revealed that the Brong Ahafo Regional Director of the National Sports Authority (NSA) paid a total amount of GHS 13,120 in allowances to ten officers without any supporting document.

This was stated in the annual report of the Auditor-General on the Accounts of of Ghana- Ministries, Departments and other Agencies for the year ended 31 December, 2014.

According to the report, these payments were made when no evidence was given to support that the staff had undertaken tasks in relation to their core duties at the National Sports Authority.

Article 15 (2) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NSA and the Public Service Workers Union of Ghana states that “a duty allowance of 20 percent of an employee’s basic salary should be paid if the employee performed functions in addition to his normal duties.”

But the report revealed that there was no proof to show that the staff really did work for the NSA, for which they were paid the allowances.

The management of the Brong Ahafo office of the NSA was tasked to recover the amount from the ten people even though the NSA said that the monies were given as motivation for the staff and that had been the practice for the past three years.

The Auditor-General’s office, however, insisted that the money had to refunded and that the practice had to be stopped.

Such revelations have raised some doubts over the National Sports Authority’s constant complaints of not having funds at its disposal.

In recent times, the NSA has had financial problems and it has not been able to support various sporting federations.

But the details of the report prove that the NSA can boast of some funds although those funds seem to be geared towards they payment of allowances