Board Chairman of the newly Constituted and Inaugurated Governing Board of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, has promised to work with the law in procurement at the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the state. 

The immediate past Board Chairman of the National Infrastructure Investment Fund, Professor Ameyaw-Akumfi, said for the public purse to be duly protected, procurement irregularities need to be weeded out.

"We are going to work with the law, and all the shortcuts in procurement will be done away with to assist the President and his government in ensuring that the public purse is indeed protected," He said.

He gave this assurance at the nine-member Board's swearing-in in Accra yesterday at the Ministry of Finance. 

The former Education Minister said, "Procurement issues remain very sensitive to Ghanaians; hence there's the need to treat it with due diligence to give the citizenry value for money". 

The Auditor-General's reports over the years, he observed, have been replete with procurement breaches causing the state thousands of cedis, a trend he said the Board he chairs would be working to eliminate.

A Deputy Minister of Finance, Dr John Kumah, during the swearing-in ceremony of the Board, said, "the board plays an essential and pivotal role in the application of the public financial management regime, and the members must strive to live up to that expectation".

He added that "Government expects the Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi chaired Board to be one which would continuously strive for innovation and sustainability in the conduct of procurement through electronic systems to ensure greater transparency, accountability and value for money".

" You have an enormous task not only in ensuring that the Authority successfully achieved its mandate but also working to improve its image and the procurement profession in our country," Dr John Kumah (MP) charged the Board.

Other members of the Board include; Diana Asonaba Dapaah (Deputy Minister of Justice), Frank Mantey (CEO of PPA), Hayford Amoh, Ernestina Swatson Eshun, Dr Alhassan Iddrisu, Samuel Richard Baidoo, Isaac Kofi Amoah and Patricia Safo.