The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) reported that it had recovered GH¢617.5 million in stolen funds from the national coffers, including money returned by those accused of fraud, money laundering, cybercrime, and misappropriation in 2025.
This was said by Mr. Isaac Eweh, Chief Analyst at the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), during a review of Ghana’s Medium-Term Development Framework’s 2025 Annual Progress Report and its launch in Accra on Thursday.
He clarified that the recovery was a component of initiatives to improve accountability and protect public resources.
The Director-General of the NDPC, Dr. Audrey Smock Amoah, also urged all state institutions to closely follow the national medium-term development framework’s principles because Ghana’s economy is clearly recovering and changing.
The report, she said, was the result of nationwide monitoring and evaluation carried out in cooperation with state institutions required to give statistics, ministries, departments, and agencies, regional coordinating councils, metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies.
According to Dr. Amoah, the new Resetting Ghana Agenda: Creating Jobs, Ensuring Accountability and Promoting Shared Prosperity (2026–2029) would be implemented with lessons learned from the implementation of Agenda for Jobs II: Creating Prosperity and Opportunities for All (2022–2025).
The NDPC Chairperson, Dr. Nii Moi Thompson, stressed that by providing reliable information on Ghana’s development performance to the government, Parliament, civil society organisations, development partners, and citizens, the Annual Progress Report would increase public accountability.
“Development is not measured simply by the number of policies we prepare or projects we implement. Rather, it is measured by improvements in people’s lives. It is reflected in better schools, quality healthcare, decent employment opportunities, improved infrastructure, stronger institutions and greater opportunity for every Ghanaian,” Dr Thompson stated.
The Agenda for Jobs II framework was intended to boost economic recovery, provide jobs, and increase residents’ opportunities.
The GH¢617.5 million that EOCO recovered in 2025 highlights how crucial accountability is to maintaining progress.
In order to ensure that future frameworks, like the Resetting Ghana Agenda (2026–2029), are founded on lessons learned and sensitive to national interests, the NDPC’s monitoring and evaluation exercise offers an evidence-based assessment of progress.
Source: newsthemegh.com