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ABLAKWA CHALLENGES MINORITY TO NAME ANY SOUTH AFRICA EVACUEE DENIED GH¢5,500 ALLOWANCE

Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has challenged the Minority in Parliament to identify any Ghanaian evacuated from South Africa who failed to receive the government’s GH¢5,500 support package, comprising a GH¢5,000 reintegration grant and GH¢500 transport allowance. The government says all 1,964 evacuees were paid and that the entire GH¢49,721,786 evacuation expenditure is documented. The Minority says its review of payment records could match only 824 names across the two allowance registers and has called for an independent audit, while also raising separate questions about other expenditure categories.