The government has been transparent and prudent in the management of COVID-19 funds, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said. Delivering a statement in Parliament yesterday on how the government spent COVID-19 funds, he said all the expenses were provided for in the last Budget Statement. Nevertheless, he elaborated on the specifics and how they helped to contain the pandemic and saved lives. Funding sources Giving details, the minister said out of the GH¢18.19 billion the government mobilised from the various sources of funds in 2020 out of the programmed GH¢19.3 billion, GH¢12 billion was spent He mentioned the sources as the Government of Ghana Contingency Fund, GH¢1.2 billion; World Bank Group Funds, GH¢1.3 billion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), GH¢5.8 billion; the African Development Bank (AfDB), GH¢405 million; the European Union (EU), GH¢503 million, and the Bank of Ghana (BoG) COVID-19 bonds, GH¢10 billion. Utilisation Ofori-Atta told the House that $23...