Ghana: Wameca Winning Story Leads to Cancellation of $74m Dubious Contract

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The story adjudged the best anti-corruption report at the 2018 edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference Awards (WAMECA) has resulted in the cancellation of questionable waste bins procurement contracts worth $74 million (GHs 362 million) by the government of Ghana.

The story titled "Robbing the Assemblies" by Manasseh Azure Awuni of Ghana's Multimedia Group is the result of nearly one year of comprehensive, painstaking investigations across 53 Metropolitan, Municipal, District Assemblies (MMDAs) in all the ten regions of Ghana. The story exposed massive malfeasance in the sanitation contracts between the government of Ghana and the country's biggest waste management company leading to the cancellation of the contract.

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