One of Ghana’s anti-corruption body, Ghana Integrity Initiative(GII) says , the Ghana Audit Service has no case asking for handing over notes from the former Auditor General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo.
The Audit Service in a letter dated 16th March, 2021, demanded a comprehensive handing over notes from Daniel Yaw Domelevo after he has been ousted from office on technical grounds.
Portions of the letter read “We refer to the letter ref. OPS 101/1/21/221 dated 3rd March, 2021 from the Office of the President regarding your retirement (copy attached) and request you to prepare a comprehensive handing over of the Audit Service to Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu who has been asked to continue to act as Auditor-General until the President appoints a substantive Auditor-General. We will be grateful if you could complete the exercise within two weeks of receipt of this letter,”.
This was signed by Board Chairman, Professor Dua Agyeman.
But in a sharp rebuttal, Mr. Domelevo stated that “I prepared a handing-over note and handed over to the Acting Auditor-General on 30th June 2020 and he has been in charge for over 8 months.When I resumed work on the 3rd of March 2021, Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu did not hand over to me with the excuse that the handing-over note was not ready,”.
He added that ““If you so wish, please direct the Acting Auditor-General to hand over to me and I will thereafter hand over to him,”.
Commenting on the rift at the Ghana Audit Service on Daybreak Upper East, Programmes Manager at GII, Mary Addah said , they agree entirely with the response from the former Auditor General and added that it was ridiculous.
She also noted that, the chronicle of rancourous relationship between the board and the former Auditor General was unfortunate and dragged the image of the country to serious disrepute so far as the fight against corruption is concerned.
“I believe this is a non-starter in the first place.We say it is a non-starter because there is no issue to be attending to”
Source:A1radionline.com
