{
  "id": 7736389,
  "title": "Covid-19: Auditor-General’s own audit objective raises questions over omission of Local Gov’t spending – Manasseh Awuni",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/covid-19-auditor-generals-own-audit-objective-raises-questions-over",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-16T07:14:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/covid-19-auditor-generals-own-audit-objective-raises-questions-over-omission-of-local-govt-spending-manasseh-awuni/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni says the Auditor-General’s own stated objective for its COVID-19 expenditure audit raises questions over why the Ministry of Local Government’s fumigation spending was omitted from the final report. Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express, Mr Awuni said he initially contacted the Audit Service to establish whether the ministry’s expenditure had […]",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "MyJoyOnline Ghana",
        "title": "We have the greatest public finance scandal of 4th Republic – Dafeamekpor on COVID-19 audit",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/we-have-the-greatest-public-finance-scandal-of-4th-republic",
        "published": "2026-09-16T02:31:00.000Z"
      }
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  "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."
}