{
  "id": 12893379,
  "title": "This is an Organised Crime – PAC Ranking Member on 10 million MoH car loan debt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/this-is-an-organised-crime-pac-ranking-member-on-10-million-moh-car",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T13:43:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
    "slug": "myjoyonline-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/this-is-an-organised-crime-pac-ranking-member-on-10-million-moh-car-loan-debt/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Samuel Atta Mills, the Ranking Member of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has accused the Ministry of Health of engaging in \"organized crime\" over a reported GH¢10 million debt stemming from car loans. The criticism came during a committee hearing on October 8, as officials from the Ministry of Health appeared to address concerns about vehicles provided under a car loan scheme. Mills questioned the eligibility of certain beneficiaries for the vehicles, alleging that some individuals were given cars despite their salaries not warranting such a provision. He expressed disbelief, stating, \"If this isn't organized crime, I don't know what else it is.\" The ranking member also raised concerns about beneficiaries who are retired or deceased, demanding a comprehensive list of such individuals and raising the possibility that their vehicles might still be in the possession of relatives. He demanded immediate action from the Minister of Health to recover the outstanding vehicles and funds, emphasizing the responsibility of the Ministry to ensure proper repayment or retrieval of the issued vehicles. Rejecting the Ministry's explanation that the list of beneficiaries and vehicles had been forwarded to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mills questioned the logic behind this transfer of responsibility, arguing that the Ministry should be the primary entity responsible for recovering these assets. He called for the creation of a dedicated recovery unit within the Ministry to pursue defaulting beneficiaries and urged stronger measures to retrieve vehicles where beneficiaries obtained them fraudulently.",
  "summary": "Ranking Member on Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Samuel Atta Mills, has criticised the Ministry of Health over the alleged failure to recover about GH¢10 million in car loans, describing the arrangement as “organised crime”.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}