Per Article (187) (15) which states that:” The accounts of the Office of the Auditor-General shall be audited and be reported upon by an auditor appointed by Parliament, an ad hoc committee has been set up to investigate Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo over GH¢84,000 fund misappropriation.
The Committee is chaired by Deputy Majority Leader Sarah Adwoa Safo and they are to recommend to the House the appointment of an auditor to audit the accounts of the Office of the Auditor-General.
Members of the committee would be Public Accounts Committee Chairman James Klutse Avedzi, who is also the Deputy Minority Leader and MP for Ketu North Constituency; and Mr. Kofi Okyere-Agyekum, MP for Fanteakwa South Constituency.
Media Report has revealed that Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, has spent a staggering GH¢84,000 as honorarium from the GH¢350,000 paid to him to audit Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
GETFund paid GH¢350,000 to Mr. Domelevo has demanded to enable him to audit the accounts of the educational body of which GH¢84,000 of the money was spent on honorarium.
Another GH¢62,000 was blown on what Mr. Domelevo described in his request letter as ‘quality reviews’, even though GETFund insists that the Auditor General did a poor job with little professional touch.
Mr. Domelevo put in a request to GETFund to finance the audit of its accounts from 2012 to 2016 when the new GETFund Administrator, Richard Boadu took office.
In a letter dated May 5, 2017, to GETFund, the Auditor General said the release of the money was necessary since there had been a delay in obtaining funds from the Ministry of Finance.
GETFund eventually released money from its budget for the audit.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora