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The Audit Service has discredited claims that an attempt to cover up the government’s misdeeds is the reason for the delay in submitting its 2019 report to Parliament.
According to the Service, his inability to conduct the annual activity was due to concerns beyond the team’s control, including the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Minority in Parliament has accused the Audit Service of violating the law establishing the Auditor General’s office by failing to present the report to Parliament, six months after the end of the year.
The minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, blames the situation on President Akufo-Addo’s decision to order the attorney general, Daniel Domelevo, to proceed with his accumulated leave.
“So you have to understand that when an overzealous president asks an auditor general to go on leave, the consequence is that what he is obliged and obligated to do under the constitution – present the report on time to parliament – that constitutional law remains in breach, ”he said.
But the Audit Service has vehemently rejected the claim.
In a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations, Ama Awotwe-Bosumafi, the Service explained that “this delay is neither intentional nor intentional as Hon. Iddrisu type to argue. The delay is solely due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus that disrupted the business and social life of the government. “
Iddrisu during his statement on Monday also added that the government is hiding the 2019 report in an attempt to cover up corruption overseen by the PNP administration before the elections.
“This government is covering up to avoid possible embarrassment of what will be revealed in the 2019 audited account.”
But the Audit Service will not accept any of that. The Sept. 30 statement describes the Tamale South deputy’s comments as false.
“Certainly, the delays cannot be described as” deliberate with the main purpose of avoiding further embarrassing situations for the government … or with the intention of covering up illegal acts by the government because this is an election year “, as speculates the minority, but rather the result of the general situation that affected the nation as a whole, and was totally out of the control of the Auditor General ”.
It is also instructive to note that on July 20, 2020, the Acting Auditor General (Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu) presented the “Auditor General’s Report on the Consolidated Statements of Foreign Currency Receipts and Payments of the Bank of Ghana for the Year Ended on December 31, 2019 ”, said the Deputy Director.
According to the statement, “the Acting Auditor General informed the President of Parliament through the cover letter that reports covering other accounts would be delayed due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Service’s audit activities.”
“Most of these outstanding reports have since been submitted for printing for later presentation to Parliament. Copies of all reports to be sent to Parliament would be posted on the Services website (www.ghaudit.org) in due time and in accordance with Section 23 of Law 584 ”.
The Audit Service, however, assured that “it will work assiduously in the interest of the nation, but without compromising the health and safety of its brave and hardworking personnel who strive to generate the relevant information required to produce Reports for the Auditor General to present. to Parliament “.
