Anti-Corruption

Property rate sham: How assemblies lost millions of cedis through questionable with Jospong-linked Company

GBC Director-General challenges Auditor-General’s report on 2023 African Games

Presidency investigations into Big Push sole-sourcing: Did Valerie Sawyerr Committee deliberately put out false information to clear Ministry or it was misled?

More than GHC280m in Auditor-General surcharges remain unpaid

Procurement on Big Push: PPA refuses to release information to The Fourth Estate

Millions paid to ‘ghost hotels’ during African Games — Auditor-General

African Games Audit: Sports Ministry awarded 55 unjustified single-sourced contracts worth over GHS2.7bilion

Supreme Court dismisses Gifty Oware-Mensah’s pleading to halt her trial at the High Court

NSS Ghost Name Scandal: Court admits NSS-ADB agreement in case against Gifty Oware-Mensah

NSS Ghost Names Scandal: Osei Assibey Antwi asks Court to unfreeze daughter’s accounts

NSS Scandal: Gifty Oware-Mensah heads to Supreme Court to challenge High Court’s decision

High Court quashes motion, sets May 11 for evidence in chief against Gifty Oware

Police grab two suspects in possession of 40 bundles of suspected stolen ECG cables

Latest Podcast

Mathematical Mix-up or Deliberate Duplication? Why the Presidency’s Big Push report doesn’t add up

The Fourth Estate’s investigations into the Mahama administration’s flagship construction project, The Big Push, generated a lot of public debate about the use and abuse of sole source procurement in the award of public contracts. In May 2026, in response to The Fourth Estate’s investigation, the presidency released a 72-page report which concluded that the Ministry of Roads and Highways did not abuse the sole source process in its award of contracts under the Big Push initiative. Interestingly, the number of Big Push contracts used to arrive at that conclusion differed from those obtained by The Fourth Estate through a Right to Information (RTI) request from the Roads Ministry. While the presidency’s response sought to dispute the number of sole-sourced contracts awarded under the initiative, it however, did not dispute the cost per project contained in The Fourth Estate’s report. So what did the presidency miss in its own review of contracts awarded under its flagship project? Kwaku Krobea Asante joins us to break down the figures and point out where they fall short.