Red Monday as citizens ask Auditor-General to disallow and surcharge audit infractions
Members of the Coalition for Democratic Accountability and and Inclusive Governance are are asking the Auditor-General to disallow and surcharge audit infractions captured in the report.
The group is picketing the area outside the Office of the Auditor-General at Ministries Block O, Liberia Road, Accra today Monday September 5, to that effect.
A letter they wrote to the Police informing about the plan to picket said “This action is being organized in protest of the Auditor-General’s blatant refusal to perform his constitutionally mandated duty to disallow unlawful public expenditure and surcharge persons implicated in the 2019 and 2020 Auditor-General’s reports, in direct violation of article 187(7) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana (‘the Constitution’) and the decision of the Supreme Court in Occupy Ghana v Attorney General [2017-2018] 2 SCLRG 527.”
It is recalled that a private legal practitioner Mr Gordon Edudzi Tameklo also said the failure of the Auditor General to do so is contempt of the apex court.
He stated the Supreme Court has earlier ruled that the Auditor-General should surcharge persons engaged in infractions as captured in the report but over the past two years, that has not been done.
“He has adopted the posture of Pontius Pilate and has washed his hands off the findings,” Mr Tameklo said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday 3.
He added “His failure to disallow and surcharge is contemptuous of the Supreme Court and you know that if you violate the Supreme Court order you can be removed from office.”
source:3news
