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The Auditor General has established that the Tema Shipyard paid a total amount of GH¢860,283.94 to Fifty-Three (53) service providers without contract or agreement to determine the kind of services, pricing, and others to authenticate the payment.

The Auditor General recommended that the Chief Executive Officer and the Head of Finance should produce the contract agreement, evidence of work done, and the basis of the amount paid to authenticate the payments.

Also the AG’s review of payments vouchers disclosed that Shipyard paid a total amount of GH¢263,455.35 to Maritime Labour Organisation as service fees without evidence of work done such as reports from supervisors or heads of units indicating work performed, name of vessels Maritime Labour Organisation worked on, the offices and places Maritime Labour Organisation that provided cleaning services and others to substantiate the payment.

The Chief Executive Officer and Finance Manager have been asked to produce evidence of work done such as reports from supervisors or heads of units indicating work performed, name of vessels Maritime Labour Organisation worked on, the offices and places Maritime Labour Organisation that provided cleaning services and others to substantiate the payment, failure of which the total amount of GH¢263,455.35 be recovered from the Chief Executive Officer and Finance Manager.

The audit also disclosed that shipyard paid medical bills amounting to GH¢27,330.00 to Dr. Daniel Tettey Baddoo for providing medical services to shipyard workers at the GPHA clinic without paying or recourse to GPHA Clinic.

“We are of the view that since the Doctor took care of the officers at GPHA Clinic facility all medical payments should be made to GPHA Clinic other than the individual. We recommended that the Finance Manager should produce consent or authorisation from the GPHA Clinic to pay total amount of GH¢27,330.00 to Dr. Daniel Tettey Baddoo, failing which the total amount of GH¢27,330.00 should be recovered from Dr. Daniel Tettey Baddoo and same paid to the GPHA Clinic Account,” the report stated.