
Manasseh Azure Awuni
Ghanaian journalist
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Oct 22, 2026
Joy Super Morning Show
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And will this be the first time there are these allegations against him?

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
somebody in Nsawam senior high school told me that when they started hearing the Oboazi stories, they found that it was funny because what happened in Nsawam was worse and that they pressured him and he had to leave because of these things.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
And he said it's so bad in Nsawam that people outside of the school environment, that Okada drivers, taxi drivers are even aware, And he mentioned that they even brought in, they reported him to a municipal education directory.
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Joy News File
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Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
Finance Minister Ken Oforiata wrote a letter to the Auditor General to undertake a special audit of Ghana's COVID-19 receipts and expenditure.

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One of the audit objectives as stated by the Auditor General in his report was to quote, ascertain whether the financial records fairly represent the COVID-19 fund receipts and payments.

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However, the Auditor General's report failed to accurately capture the financial records of what the ministries, departments and agencies spent on COVID-19.

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In that report, the Auditor General stated 96.3 million Ghana cities as the cost of COVID-19 fumigation and disinfection.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
However, this investigation showed that the government spent at least 780 million Ghana cities on fumigation.
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Joy Super Morning Show
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There are some people who may also be new to this, so for those who have not followed this story, give us a brief background of your investigation and your findings.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
So basically, I have been on this beat for, uh, like 14 to 15 years now, and then when the COVID-19 started and they started doing fumigation, I paid close attention to it.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
So I was trying to find out how much we're spending on these things, and, um, one time, that was about 2022, I made a r- an RTI request to the Ministry for Local Government, and they told me they couldn't give me the information I requested at the time because they had given it to editors-- sorry, auditors.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
And I knew that a certain COVID-19 audit was ongoing, so I was so interested in the outcome of that audit because as a journalist, they can deny you information or they wouldn't give you everything, but I knew very well that auditors would have access to it.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
So when the audit was done and I took the report and looked for how much the Ministry of Local Government spent on COVID-19, and there was none, nothing.
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What made this one different? How different was this particular fumigation you focused on?
Officials Are Using Zoomlion to Siphon State Funds – Manasseh Azure Awun
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Mm.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
Ẹnnu nso kɔ danke yɛn, Zoomlion contract na ę dɔ so pii, enti ɛyɛ sɛ amanfo koraa nni nti me nni ɛkyɛ.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
Tɔda, w'moka sɛɛ bi a, eh, contract wo yɛ ne wo, but na yɛ tia no fofor, so wɔnyɛ the same work elsewhere.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
Enti, ɛnyɛ sɛ sɛ mo a mo ka ne sika yɛde ma Zoomlion no, sɛ yɛde ɛno nkɔ takora ma assemblies na, w'metumi yɛ adwuma a ɛsɛn ne Zoomlion yi, because ansa na Zoomlion bɛba no, na assemblies no na ɛno hwɛ mo sanitation.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
Eh, me wɔ nsaman, sɛ mo a mo foa na sɛ bi wo gya bɔ la, anaa sɛ woan ndo wo ntwekyi, yɛbɛ sɔa wo ani ade.
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Wu tumi sɛ wom nhyɛ da annyɛ adwuma no sɛ de ɛsɛ wom yɛ no, na atɔrenkyɛm aba ne yɛsɛ k fa Zoomlion aba no, saa, I mean, de wo ka yi, e-e-ɛno nni, ɛno sisi pɛpɛpɛ because asɛmpanyinfo no ahyɛ da, saa na w'abɛ sɛ wokyerɛ
Kukurantumi
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Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
It's my report on Samra boy and then I'm putting more into, uh, reserves.

Manasseh Azure AwuniGUEST
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and the airstrip on the home galaxy I yeah yeah no I'll be sitting there the reporter who do you know what what a report in America say I agree this you can see the top of a raffle room in 2025 in surgery is really the fulcrum kaka fine I'm I'm I want to do film movie . . . . I don't know what to tell you.
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37:40What is your message to the people who are watching this? The people who are watching this, the people who are on the phone, the
