{
  "id": 8025331,
  "title": "Billions Sprayed into Thin Air: Inside Manasseh Azure Awuni’s Probe into Ghana’s 775 Million Cedi COVID-19 Fumigation Spending",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/billions-sprayed-into-thin-air-inside-manasseh-azure-awunis-probe",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T12:08:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "GBC Ghana",
    "slug": "gbc-ghana",
    "url": "https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/news/billions-sprayed-into-thin-air-inside-manasseh-azure-awunis-probe-into-ghanas-775-million-cedi-covid-19-fumigation-spending/2026/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "By Sharon Zoe Williams Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has cast a harsh spotlight on Ghana’s pandemic expenditures, revealing that the state sank an astounding 775 million Ghana cedis into COVID-19 fumigation and disinfection exercises that scientific experts deemed largely unnecessary. Appearing on GBC News’ National Discourse hosted by Darroll Allan Tagoe, on Wednesday September…",
  "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."
}