Tag: Auditor General
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Ghana loses $8.3m for failing to charge penalties on surface rentals
The Auditor General has disclosed that the failure to impose penalties on oil companies for delayed payment of surface rental has resulted in a loss of more than $8.3 million in revenue. The Auditor General’s report highlighted that companies defaulting on their payments were not being penalized as required by the Petroleum Revenue Management Act,…
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Sanction culprits in our reports – Auditor General urges Finance ministry
The Auditor-General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu is urging the Ministry of Finance to strictly sanction individuals or institutions found culpable of misapplying or misusing public funds per its reports. Mr Asiedu stressed that accountability was key to ensuring the protection of the country’s resources and value for money. “We also want to urge the minister of…
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NCA yet to retrieve over ¢25M debt from Glo, Vodafone – Audit Report
The Audit Service has found that telecom companies, Vodafone and Glo are yet to pay debts of more than GH¢25 million they owe the National Communications Authority (NCA). The Service in its audit report on public boards corporations and other statutory institutions ending December 2020, indicated that while Glo owed the government GH¢17 million for…
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SSNIT ordered to recover penalty charges from nine agent banks
The office of the Auditor General has ordered the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, (SSNIT), to recompute some GHS9.2 million which stand as total penalty charges from nine agent banks for the year ended 2019. In a report by the acting Auditor General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, on the public accounts of Ghana for the…
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We’ve taken steps to retrieve money invested in housing projects – SSNIT
The Management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) says it has taken various steps aimed at retrieving its cash locked up in various capital investments. This comes after the Auditor General revealed in its audit report that the state agency has its US$185 million locked up in two housing projects in Accra.…
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Supreme Court strikes out injunction application against acting Auditor-General
The Supreme Court has struck out an injunction application seeking to stop Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu from acting as Auditor-General. The seven-member panel on the case struck out the application after lawyers for the plaintiffs withdrew the case. The withdrawal of the injunction application followed a ruling that the acting Auditor-General and the substantive Auditor-General whose…
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Austin Gamey’s claims on ‘Accumulated Leave’ flawed – Labour Law Practitioner
A former head of Legal and Administration at the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Paapa Kwasi Danquah, says the claim by Labour Consultant Austin Gamey, to the effect that one automatically forfeits their leave when they do not utilize it under a given year is flawed per the labour laws. According to Mr. Gamey, per Section…
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Reconsider accumulated leave directive, it’s unconstitutional – Domelevo to Akufo-Addo
The Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo, is urging President Akufo-Addo to reconsider the directive to proceed on his accumulated leave. In a letter to the Presidency, Daniel Domelevo said the directive breaches the labour law and is unconstitutional. He also contends that based on recent labour law and practice, “no worker is deemed to have accumulated any…
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Leave is lost when you don’t take it; nothing like accumulated Leave exists – Austin Gamey
A Labour Consultant and a former Deputy Minister for Employment and Social Welfare under the erstwhile NDC government , Austin Gamey, has stated that the concept of accumulated leave, which is mostly prevalent in Ghana’s public sector, is not backed by the labour law. According to him, per Section 31 of the Labour Act, unused…
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Akufo-Addo directs Auditor-General; Domelovo to proceed on accumulated leave
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has directed the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, to proceed on his accumulated annual leave of 132 working days. Mr. Domelevo’s leave takes effect from Wednesday, July 1, 2020. A statement from the Communications Directorate of the Jubilee House said Mr. Domelevo is to hand over all matters relating to his office…