Information gathered indicate that a group is set to petition the management of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), and the Office of the Operation Cover All Loot (ORAL) over what they describe as an alleged siphoning, squandering, and embezzlement of millions of Ghana cedis from farming activities undertaken by the YEA in the Bono Region.
The group claimed that a prominent member of an opposition party in Ghana — who once held a high-ranking position within the agency is allegedly behind the alleged mismanagement of the farm.
The said high ranking official is also believed to have bought the silence of the current adminstration. An allegation this website couldn’t immediately confirm.
The farm which was about ten-thousand-acre maize farm, which was initially planned to employ over 3,000 youths, collapsed due to alleged fraudulent conduct of certain individuals in the agency.
Shockingly, the entire farm was said to have been razed down just days before a planned visit by an external audit team.
It is claimed that the full cost of establishing the farm — from land procurement to input acquisition — amounted to over GHS 200 million.
Many of the inputs were reportedly obtained for free from the Secretariat of the Planting for Food and Jobs programme but were later falsely billed to the YEA.
External auditors have expressed frustration over the lack of cooperation from current YEA management, raising suspicions that they may have been compromised with financial incentives to remain silent.
The group behind the petition is determined to escalate the matter to the President of the Republic, the Office of the Special Prosecutor, and ORAL in the coming days, describing the incident as a grave betrayal of public trust and a crime against the state.
