A six-month exposé tracing how national funds rise, fall, and sometimes disappear
Delivering focused and insightful business perspectives; impacting lives.
Over the next six months, The High Street Journal will journey through Ghana’s financial landscape, from GIIF’s megaprojects to MIIF’s mineral royalties, from GETFund’s classrooms to the Road Fund’s highways, and from oil revenues to the future of national development. Each phase will feature a deep-dive investigation, simplified explainers, expert opinions, and stories that connect policy to the everyday Ghanaian. We know the road will not be smooth. Some fund managers may dodge our calls. Some officials may smile and say, “Not now.” But we shall still write, for silence, too, is a kind of testimony.
It all began with a simple question in our newsroom: What exactly is happening at the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF)? Established in 2014, GIIF was envisioned as the bridge between ambition and progress, mobilizing funds, managing investments, and ensuring that Ghana’s development was not just promised but built. Yet, years later, many wonder, Where are the bridges, the roads, and the returns? We have seen headlines about investments and projects, but few can clearly explain how much GIIF earns or how it impacts the ordinary Ghanaian.
One question about GIIF quickly grew into a bigger one about all of Ghana’s funds. If GIIF builds our infrastructure, who is building GIIF? If MIIF manages our minerals, who manages MIIF? If GETFund funds education, who is educating us on how GETFund spends? That question became a calling, and the foundation for this six-month investigative campaign.
Our series, “Tracking the Money: Ghana’s Investment Funds Under the Spotlight,” will shine a light on the institutions that manage billions in public wealth. We will trace their origins, their mandates, and the projects they have financed, from classrooms and roads to refineries and royalties. But this is not a witch-hunt. We come with a journalist’s lamp and a citizen’s conscience to ask, politely but persistently: Where were you born? Who raised you? What have you done with your life?
Accountability, after all, is not an accusation. It is a civic right. For too long, Ghana’s public funds have been treated like sacred cows, admired but never questioned. Yet the cow belongs to the people, and it is not sinful to ask how much milk it gives.
Each of these funds has its own personality. GIIF is the elder sibling, briefcase in hand, always talking infrastructure but often quiet about impact. MIIF is the golden child, ambitious and promising, still learning how to turn minerals into miracles. GETFund wears a school uniform and forever raises its hand for attention. The Road Fund carries dust on its shoes and potholes on its conscience. The Petroleum Funds smell faintly of oil and live between two worlds: one for saving, one for spending. Together they form Ghana’s Fund Family, and we, the citizens, are the relatives who hardly get invited to family meetings.
This series is our invitation letter to that meeting. Beyond the reports and data, we will tell human stories: the student whose scholarship came too late, the trader stranded on a road the Road Fund forgot, the miner who sees gold flowing out of his town but not into his life. Because this is not economics; this is everyday Ghana wearing a tie.
Some say, “Leave these things to the technocrats.” But the truth is simple. Every cedi misused is a hospital bed unbuilt, a borehole undug, a scholarship unpaid, a bridge postponed. When funds become invisible, poverty becomes visible. That is why The High Street Journal is not just tracking numbers. We are following footprints, showing how public money walks, talks, and sometimes disappears into bureaucratic fog.
Of course, this journey will not be without risk. There will be political pushback, evasive answers, and a few who believe transparency is treason. But we move with facts as our compass and fairness as our guide. We will verify before we publish, listen before we judge, and balance every criticism with evidence. This is not a fight; it is a public service.
Dear reader, this journey belongs to you. Ask questions. Share experiences. When the people follow the money, the money behaves. As our elders say, “If you don’t watch your soup, the cat will learn to cook.”
From GIIF’s bridges to MIIF’s gold royalties, from GETFund’s classrooms to the Road Fund’s tolls, these funds are more than government programs. They reflect who we are as a nation and how seriously we take our promise to future generations. When the money walks away, it is our duty to walk after it, not in anger, but in wisdom.
