Ghana’s Deputy Communications Minister Victoria Hammah has been sacked after she was recorded allegedly saying she would stay in politics until she has made $1m (£600,000).
“If you have money then you can control people,” she said on the tape which has been widely circulated in Ghana.
Ms Hammah has not yet commented on the tape or her sacking.
The BBC’s Sammy Darko in Accra says she played a key role in President John Mahama’s election last year.
In August, she said there was a lot of pressure on her to steal from government because people thought she was rich.
She described such demands as “obnoxious”, reports the Ghanaweb news site.
“Corrupt politicians are the reflection of [a] corrupt society!” it quotes her as saying.