Interior Minister Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka has revealed shocking details surrounding the stalled Police Hospital project, describing years of alleged corruption, missing documents and massive financial irregularities that have delayed the facility for more than two decades.
Speaking in an interview on Pan-African TV with veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Muntaka said efforts to trace official documents relating to the hospital project proved nearly impossible after he assumed office.
According to him, neither the Interior Ministry, the Ghana Police Service, the Ministry of Finance nor the Attorney General’s Department could produce a copy of the original contract for the project.
“Sometimes I wonder how we’ve been running our country,” he stated, explaining that even checks at the national archives yielded an empty file on the International Hospital project, now known as the Police Hospital.
Muntaka said concerns deepened when a British company linked to the project repeatedly requested meetings with him despite the absence of official records.
The minister explained that he later uncovered correspondence from the Ministry of Finance referencing Crown Agents and Cabinet involvement in the project. This led him to formally request details from Cabinet, where he discovered that a forensic audit had been approved in 2015.
He disclosed that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which conducted the audit, found that the contractor had been overpaid by more than £40 million, despite the original project cost being estimated at £15 million.
According to Muntaka, the audit recommended that government recover the excess payments and terminate the contract.
He added that another forensic audit commissioned in 2023 by Crown Agents reached similar conclusions, again citing an overpayment exceeding £40 million.
Muntaka said the government, together with the Attorney General, has now terminated the contract and begun processes to re-award it to enable completion of the long-delayed hospital project.
He further noted that steps are underway to recover the funds identified in both audit reports.
