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MFWA drags Controller and Accountant General’s Dept. to RTI Commission over ‘Mahama Cares’ deductions
The Fourth Estate had asked the Department for information, including the names of appointees who lost three months’ salary for failing to declare their assets and the total amount paid by the defaulters to the State’s coffers.
This is because the CAGD has denied the MFWA’s investigative journalism project, The Fourth Estate, information on salary deductions paid into the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, known as Mahama Cares.“Accordingly, pursuant to Section 11(1)(d) of Act 989, the requested information is exempt from disclosure,” she wrote to The Fourth Estate.
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