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The One Ghana movement has expressed concern over certain actions or what it calls a “witch hunt” for Daniel Yao Domelevo to leave the office of the Auditor General.
The Group’s concern follows a three-page letter to Mr. Domelevo from the Audit Service Board stating that the Auditor General has reached retirement age in accordance with Ghana’s law classification.
According to the board of directors, Mr Domelevo is deemed to have retired in June 2020 and a letter will be copied to the president for the necessary action to be taken.
The One Ghana Movement, in a press release dated March 3, said: “The latest twist in the chase is as ludicrous as it is a most shameless act against the Auditor General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, who was forced out of court to take 167 days off work, at a critical juncture in the case against then-minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo over the Kroll scandal.
This “shameless act” of the Audit Service Commission, according to the Group, cannot be elevated to any judicial decision and cannot therefore prevent Mr. Domelevo from fully exercising his constitutional mandate “even if only for the sake of it. the next three months ”.
Only a court decision or the President acting in accordance with due process in this regard would prevent the Auditor General from exercising his mandate, added the Group.
The audit service said that the changes in Mr. Domelevo’s date of birth and nationality made it more doubtful and clearly established that he had made false statements contrary to the law.
The Council alleged that the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) records provided by the Auditor General indicated that his date of birth was 1960 when he joined the scheme on October 1, 1978.
Again, the record also showed that Mr. Domelevo’s hometown is Agbetofe in Togo; making it non-Ghanaian but on October 25, 1993 some changes were made.
The Auditor-General’s hometown was now Ada in the Greater Accra region as the date of birth changed to June 1, 1961.
Mr Domelevo, explaining the alleged anomalies, said his grandfather was from Ada in the Greater Accra region but emigrated to Togo and remained in Agbetofe.
On the question of his date of birth, Mr Domelevo said he noticed that 1960 was an error “when I checked my information in the baptismal register of the Catholic Church in Adeemmra”.
Speaking on the issue of citizenship as raised by the Council, the Group noted that even some former statesmen, including the late Rawlings, had seen his citizenship questioned, therefore, urge Domelevo not to be shaken by the laughable dirt digging to stain its enviable reputation.
The One Ghana movement, following the remarkable work of Mr. Domelevo, as described in a World Bank report on corruption which recognized him as improving the image of the audit service, calls for the extension of his stay at the office of the auditor general. .
“Therefore, except under any legal process, Mr. Domelevo must be left for his full term and is more than worthy of his statutory pension rights.
“We recommend an extension of his stay within the authorized limits of the law, if necessary, because he is very worthy of having worked to improve the image and the status of the institution and is recognized as the only Auditor General in to have fought and won to recover millions of cedis for the State ”, declared the Group.
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