Auditor-General’s Report: We must have a fast-track process to jail persons found guilty  – President Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has demanded that those found guilty of numerous offenses in the Auditor-General’s report be punished more quickly.

The report has indicted individuals for a variety of violations and monetary losses to the state throughout the years.

Speaking on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at the 12th Annual Governing Boards and Chief Directors and Executives Conference in Ho, President Mahama clarified that the nation will continue to document these misappropriations for a considerable amount of time until a more stringent deterrent mechanism is implemented.

“…persons who infract, are found guilty of infractions or do not follow due procedure or lead to loss of public resources, we must have a fast-track process to Nsawam. Fast track, before you see you are in Nsawam, six months, you know, until we do that, until there’s deterrence, we’re going to come every year and they say total misappropriation and infractions found out by the Auditor-General is about GHC15 billion,” he bemoaned.

…if we save GHC 15 billion can you imagine what it could do, you know? And so we’re going to have a meeting, we’re

Going to bring some, we’ve not fully implemented the constitutional provision. There’s a part of the provision that says after the Public Accounts Committee has sat on the Auditor-General’s report, Parliament must set up a committee. What we don’t know is whether it should be a parliamentary committee or it’s a committee not necessarily made of parliamentarians to implement the findings of the Auditor General.”