Mahama’s corrupt appointees to face Amidu as A-G refers ministerial fraud to SP
The Ghana Audit Service will submit to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (SP) infractions it had identified in its reports for prosecution.
The Auditor General (AG), Mr Daniel Yao Domelevo, stated that under section three of the SP Act, it is required of the office to investigate alleged corruption and corruption-related offences, which were submitted to Parliament and the AG.
“Therefore, now in the course of our audit if we identify abuses or infractions, which we suspect are criminal or fraudulent, what we will do is, we will submit it to the SP. And then the SP can prosecute on our behalf,” he said.
He said the governing body of the Office of the SP is a board consisting of one representative of the Audit Service, not below the rank of a Director, nominated by the AG.
Mr Domelevo made this known on Friday in Accra, during a day’s seminar organised by the 2013 Year Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA-Ghana) on the theme, “The role of the Auditor General in facilitation of the work of the Special Prosecutor”.
He argued that “if the office of the Auditor General should limit the fight against corruption to only what auditors could do, (that is reporting, disallowing and collecting the money); people would still play games with public funds”.
Source: gna
