At a time when operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) are under pressure to locate the 93.7 percent of defaulters of the Micro Finance and Small Loans Scheme (MASLOC), Bertha Ansah-Djan, the woman appointed by President Mills to go and head the place is on a splurge spending huge amounts of cedis to replace just a car key!

In a no holds barred spending spree similar to that of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Bertha Ansah-Djan has forked out whopping GH¢25,000 (¢250,000,000 Old cedis) to replace the keys to a V8 Land Cruiser which was lost by her driver.

According to sources, the vehicle was being used by the past Chief Executive Officer and was made available to the new CEO for her use.

This blog gathers that the driver of the vehicle lost the key and as such it had to be replaced but ironically the key is been imported from the manufacturers of the car and is costing the nation a whopping two hundred and fifty million old cedis (¢250,000,000).

When contacted she said, “it is foolish, haven’t you lost a car key before? What would this story do for the common man on the street?”

She continued that when “I was coming to work in my own car and buying my own fuel did you bother to ask why?”

Bertha Ansah-Djan would not listen to this reporter and hanged up twice whenever she was called to throw some light on the issue saying “you are wasting my time”.

Prior to speaking to the CEO, the Public Relations officer of MASLOC had declined comment saying “I don’t speak on anything to do with the Chief Executive. If it is about her, come to the office and talk her personally.”

The Micro and Small Loans Scheme which was introduced by the Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to provide soft loans to petty traders and small business operators as part of efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty is on the brink of collapse.

Majority of beneficiaries have however refused to repay the loans.

Under the micro credit scheme, 149,690 groups have received assistance, while 7,122 individuals benefited from small loans both totaling GH¢48,585,757. Out of the figure, GH¢1,343,092 was collected over the period.