COVID-19: NATIONAL TRUST FUND WRAPS UP OPERATIONS
The Board of Trustees of the COVID-19 National Trust Fund has paid GH¢7,447,402.80 into the Consolidated Fund.
The payment was the balance after disbursing the entire contributions received.
The payment was necessary, as the work of the trustee ended on Thursday, August 31, 2023, after operating for three years and six months.
Its mandate has ended following the declaration by the President in his COVID-19 address on May 28, 2023, which indicated the end of the work of the Fund.
As of Wednesday, August 30, 2023, when the Board briefed the Presidential Press Corps on the disbursement, total contributions received by the COVID-19 National Trust Fund, both in cash and in kind, was GH¢65,467,911.71.
Out of the amount, GH¢58,020,508.91 was disbursed for major projects, programmes, activities, and interventions that the Chairperson, Justice Sophia Akuffo, listed.
She said that “altogether, the Trust Fund received contributions in cash and in kind from over 447 individuals, corporate bodies, and other social groups to whom there can be no words sufficient to convey the depth of our gratitude.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we thank His Excellency Nana Addo-Dankwah Akufo-Addo, the President of Ghana, for the immense trust he reposed in us to function under Act 1013.
We are confident, and our audited books will no doubt show that we have executed our duties well,” she remarked.
