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The honorary vice president of IMANI-Africa has said that the government could have done better in terms of the initialization of the Special Prosecutor’s Office.
Bright Simons said that prior to the establishment of the office, the government should have made some essential arrangements, including hiring staff, providing infrastructure (in terms of an office for operation), as well as providing funds to enable the smooth operation of the OSP. .
“The government had all the time in the world until February 2018, when it hired the Special Prosecutor to put in place the necessary infrastructure so that, when the Special Prosecutor is in office, the Special Prosecutor is at least ready to act,” He said on the Super Morning Show on Wednesday.
His comment follows the resignation of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor.
Prior to his resignation, Mr. Amidu had expressed concern about issues that impeded its efficient operation, including the lack of a proper office and problems with a lack of funds to allow his office to function.
In his resignation letter, he also stated, among other things, that he was working with attached personnel over whom he had no control and this also hampered his functions.
In reaction to this, Bright Simmons argued that issues related to budget implementation difficulties have been a long-standing problem for government agencies, organizations, and MDA.
However, the government had a responsibility to ensure that all these provisions were made before a Special Prosecutor was appointed.
Meanwhile, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who was also in the program, clarified that the initialization of the office is a joint responsibility of “whoever establishes the office, that is, the government and the people who have ceased to have the powers for the office to function. . “
Financing and financing of OSP
Bright Simons also addressed other matters, including the source of funding for the OSP.
On financing issues, Mr. Simons said that due to the fact that a law established in 2016 makes it clear that making payments without going through the GIFMIS system is illegal, the government had a responsibility to ensure that the Special Prosecutor passed on to the Government. Integrated. Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS).
“The point is that the money voted for a course in the public sector in this country is almost a nonsense concept that gives how often money is not released on time or not released at all. The problem that several preconditions must be met before money can be used for work.
“The problem that SP had was that they weren’t putting it in GIFMIS. The Comptroller and General Accountants Department was the only organization that migrated it to GIFMIS. None of these things is within the power of the Special Prosecutor; he does not control these computer systems.
“Their own access needs access to computing capabilities and tastes to access GIFMIS and then they have to create the necessary accounts for it to be operational.
“And the Special Prosecutor does not have the power to go to the Accountant General’s department to make this request. It is the duty of the president to do that, ”he said.
