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Former Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo has called for the arrest and prosecution of officials who have been caught in the Auditor-General’s report to have misapplied public funds.
Commenting on the Auditor-General’s report on Covid-19 spending, Mr Domelevo indicated that in some African countries including Malawi, ministers of state and other officials who were cited for misusing public funds were sacked and arrested
“I think if you look at the report it says nothing more than to say moneys were misused or used for wrong purposes and used in a manner that even if you put the law aside you will ask yourself, does common sense allow that?” He said on the Key Points on Tv3 Saturday, January 28.
He added “why is it so, it is because there are no consequences for misbehavior or misuse of public funds. In Malawi, when the audit report came out the President made a public statement where he said he has sacked the Minister who was a member of his cabinet because that Minister used part of his money to go to Zambia.
“Again, he directed that the officers cited in the case should all be arrested, when he was making the statement he said they had been arrested. That is what I am expecting we should do something like that to stop the dissipation, the thievery of public funds in Ghana.”
The Auditor-General report noted among other things that the Ministry of Health (MoH) entered a contract signed on 15 December 2021 for the supply of 26 Toyota Hiace Deluxe Ambulances valued at US$4,049,460.12 out of which US$607,419.02 was paid vide PV No. IPF 22-007 of 2 September 2022 to be delivered by 15 January 2022.
By 3News.com
