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General News on Thursday, March 14, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-03-14
Auditor General (A-G), Daniel Yaw Domelevo
The Auditor General (GA), Mr. Daniel Yaw Domelevo, warned that the Audit Service would retain the salaries of those who do not respond to comments or verification requests within 30 days to ministries, agencies and agencies.
He added that his team would no longer tolerate such delays from officials working with MDAs.
"We will no longer tolerate such delays, we will do so in accordance with the law," he said.
Article 29 of the Audit Services Act provides that MDAs have a period of 30 days from the date on which they received the observation to respond.
Mr Domelevo made this warning at the Eighth Annual Liability Conference and the launch of the Audit Audit Exercise 2017 of the Ghana Audit Service in Accra last Monday.
The theme of the event was "Protecting Public Funds – Our Commitment to Ghana's Development Agenda".
The purpose of the Liability Conference is to intensify the need to incorporate the principles of integrity, transparency, probity and accountability in the management of public funds into the national discourse aimed at achieving development goals. nationals.
An unnecessary excuse
Domelevo said his team has been concerned with some of the delaying tactics put in place by MDA management to frustrate listeners. She said: "They often give excuses such as" we are not ready "," we have a conference to attend. "And" the scheduling officer is not in post ".
"We will be blocking the salaries of anyone who does not respond within 30 days under section 29 (2). Subsequently, if the MDA does not provide the answer with the necessary supporting documents, we will reject the expense and overburden the officer concerned. "
Section 33 of the Audit Service Act incriminated anyone who obstructed an audit, and stated: "We will stop at nothing to exercise our power to issue multidisciplinary records that hinder the conduct of an audit. ".
Domelevo said that the audit department had started to reject the illegal spending and held officials responsible for any violations.
"We want the disallowance and the supplement to be used for the purpose of the audit. So we developed the disallowance and supplement guidelines to guide our staff. "" We were trained to implement the guidelines and, soon, disavowal and the decentralized supplement to regional levels and later to districts to ensure punctuality.
The Auditor General therefore asked anyone injured by the disallowance and the surcharge to appeal to the High Court in accordance with section 181 (9) of the 1992 Constitution.
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