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The former Auditor General, Daniel Yao Domelevo, has described as absurd a directive of the Board of the Audit Service that asks him to “prepare a comprehensive delivery of the Audit Service to Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu.”
This, he says, is because he has been out of the office for more than eight months.
In a letter dated March 17 and addressed to the Chairman of the Audit Service Board, Professor Edward Dua Agyeman, Domelevo explained that he also turned himself in before going on his “ forced leave ” in 2020.
“Paragraph 2 of the letter from the Office of the President dated June 29, 2020 requested that I” turn over all matters related to the Office of the Auditor General to Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, “who has been in charge since 1 July 2020 ″, Explains part of the letter.
According to the former Auditor General, although the leave of absence directive was contrary to article 27 of the Labor Law, which establishes that a worker must be notified 30 days in advance, he prepared the delivery notes and subsequently handed them over to the interim. Auditor General on June 30, 2020; a day after they told him to start his leave.
Mr Domelevo’s clarification follows a letter signed by the President of the Council asking the former to complete the handover exercise in two weeks.
The letter that had a copy from the Vice President, the Chief of Staff and the Secretary to the President said that all administrative tasks would be handled by the Acting Auditor General, who had been asked to remain in office until a substantive appointment was made. .
But Mr. Domelevo maintains that he can only hand it over if the acting Auditor General returns it to him.
“When I resumed work on March 3, 2021, Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu did not give me the floor with the excuse that the delivery note was not ready; and after 9 pm on March 3, 2021 (the same day I went back to work), I received a letter from the secretary to the President requesting that he proceed to retirement, ”he added.
Background
On March 3, 2021, President Akufo-Addo ordered the Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo, to proceed to retire.
This came less than 16 hours after he returned from a cumulative 167-day leave.
The directive, according to a statement signed by the president’s secretary, Nana Asante Bediatuo, stems from an indication from the Audit Service Board that Mr. Domelevo has passed the eligible age to remain in the workforce.
“The attention of the President of the Republic has been called to records and documents made available to this Office by the Audit Service, which indicate that his date of birth is June 1, 1960, and that in accordance with Article 199 (1) of the Constitution, his retirement date as Auditor General was June 1, 2020 ”.
The statement explains that “based on this information, the president believes that you have formally left office.”
Essentially, Johnson Akuamoa-Asiedu will continue to act in Domelevo’s stead until a substantive appointment is made.
“The president thanks him for his service to the nation and wishes him the best in his future endeavors,” the March 3 statement concluded.
Chronology of the event
In 2018, Domelevo charged then-chief minister Osafo-Maafo a surcharge for overseeing the payment of approximately $ 1 million to Kroll Associates by the Finance Ministry.
According to Mr Domelevo, there was no evidence of work done by the UK-based company, however the Ministry of Finance paid money.
The Attorney General therefore overloaded Chief Minister Osafo-Maafo and four other officials from the Ministry of Finance. But the Chief Minister denied the allegations.
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After rejecting Osafo Marfo’s explanation, Auditor General Daniel Domelevo revealed on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show that the Chief Minister has 60 days to go to court to seek an order to void his surcharge.
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In December 2019, the Chief Minister moved to challenge the $ 1 million surcharge against him.
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A lawsuit on the same matter was also filed in the Supreme Court.
The lawyer for the five appellants, Yaw Oppong, argued that the Auditor General acted “in an unreasonable, capricious, malicious manner and in flagrant violation of his duty as a public official.”
It held that the Auditor General failed to inspect certain documents that contained evidence of the work performed by Mr. Osafo-Maafo prior to the surcharge.
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But while the case was in court, President Nana Akufo-Addo asked Mr. Domelevo to proceed with the license.
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Mr. Domelevo’s deputy, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, was asked to take over as Acting Auditor General.
Therefore, he directed the inspection of the documents as ordered by the Supreme Court and expressed his satisfaction.
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When Mr. Domelevo raised concerns about the license, the Presidency extended it.
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A week later, the Auditor General was astonished to discover that the locks on his office had been changed when he picked up some documents.
Locks for the Auditor General, Domelevo’s office changed while on leave
The High Court then proceeded to render its ruling based on the report of the Acting Auditor General.
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Less than 24 hours until Domeleve returned to work on March 3, 2021, the Audit Services Board said he would retire on June 1, 2020.
This, according to the Board, is because Mr. Domelevo was born in 1960 and not in 1961.
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But on March 3, Auditor General Daniel Yao Domelevo returned to work after his 167 days of compulsory leave.
Domelevo in office despite being deemed retired by the Audit Services Board
However, at 9 p.m. that same day, he received a letter from the Presidency requesting that he proceed to retire.
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