{"id":14169,"date":"2025-11-05T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:50:41","slug":"chraj-bans-ex-gra-boss-orders-prosecution-and-ghs9m-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=14169","title":{"rendered":"CHRAJ bans ex-GRA boss, orders prosecution and GHS9m recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has ruled that former Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Dr.\u00a0<\/span>Ammishaddai<\/span>\u00a0Owusu-Amoah, be disqualified from holding any public office for five years and be referred to the Attorney-General for prosecution after investigations revealed corruption, fraud, and procurement breaches resulting in a financial loss of GHS 8,971,933.43 to the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision follows a complaint lodged by the Movement for Truth and Accountability (MFTA), a civil society organi<\/span>s<\/span>ation, in August 2022. The group accused the former GRA boss of engaging in fraudulent procurement practices in the award of contracts for the supply of vehicles and logistics to the Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to CHRAJ\u2019s findings, the GRA under Dr. Owusu-Amoah awarded contracts worth millions of cedis to three companies\u2014<\/span>Ronor<\/span>\u00a0Motors Ltd,\u00a0<\/span>Sajel<\/span>\u00a0Motors & Trading Company Ltd, and\u00a0<\/span>Telinno<\/span> Ghana Ltd\u2014on October 1, 2021, through single-source procurement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Commission determined that the GRA misled the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) into approving the use of the single-source method under dubious circumstances, contrary to the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663) as amended.<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigations also revealed that\u00a0<\/span>Sajel<\/span>\u00a0Motors and\u00a0<\/span>Telinno<\/span>\u00a0Ghana had no verifiable business locations and had fraudulently entered into separate contracts with\u00a0<\/span>Ronor<\/span>\u00a0Motors for the supply of the same vehicles. Moreover, all three companies were found to be non-tax compliant at the time of the transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The contracts, CHRAJ said, were \u201ctainted with fraud and corruption,\u201d and the inflated pricing of the vehicles led to a direct financial loss to the state estimated at $826,551, equivalent to GHS 8,971,933.43 as of October 27, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

CHRAJ held that as head of the GRA, Dr. Owusu-Amoah bore ultimate responsibility for the irregularities that occurred under his supervision. \u201cThe Respondent, being the Entity Head, cannot escape liability as he supervised its execution,\u201d the report stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Commission, therefore, directed that Dr. Owusu-Amoah be barred from holding any public office for five years and referred him, along with the directors of the three companies, to the Attorney-General for possible prosecution and recovery of the lost funds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, CHRAJ has called on the Board of the Public Procurement Authority to debar\u00a0<\/span>Sajel<\/span>\u00a0Motors Ltd and\u00a0<\/span>Telinno<\/span>\u00a0Ghana Ltd from engaging in any future business with the state or its agencies for their role in misrepresenting their capacity to execute the contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Commission further urged the PPA to ensure strict enforcement of the Public Procurement Regulations, 2022 (L.I. 2466), particularly in relation to single-source procurement, to prevent similar breaches and ensure value for money in public contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n

This decision marks one of the most significant anti-corruption rulings of the year and underscores CHRAJ\u2019s continuing role in promoting accountability and transparency within Ghana\u2019s public institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has ruled that former Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Dr.\u00a0Ammishaddai\u00a0Owusu-Amoah, be disqualified from holding any public office for five years and be referred to the Attorney-General for prosecution after investigations revealed corruption, fraud, and procurement breaches resulting in a financial loss of GHS 8,971,933.43 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":14170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217,238,41,4414],"tags":[1896,4417,4415,4418,4416],"class_list":["post-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accountability","category-crime","category-general-news","category-revenue","tag-chraj","tag-debar-sajel-motors-ltd-and-telinno-ghana-ltd","tag-dr-ammishaddai-owusu-amoah","tag-dr-owusu-amoah","tag-mfta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14171,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions\/14171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}