[ 2014-10-01 ]

Progressive Nationalists Forum Calls For Autonomy Of Audit Service
Pressure group, the Progressive Nationalists Forum
(PNF) has pressed calls for the Ghana Audit
Service to be made autonomous and empowered to
generate its own funds without having to depend on
government for its resources.

The call comes on the heels of a media report that
suggests the Audit Service which is mandated to
audit the public accounts of Ghana, including all
public offices, metropolitan, municipal and
district assemblies, public corporations and
report their findings to Parliament has been
starved of funds.

The media report revealed that delay in the
release of statutory funds had stalled several
operations at the Ghana Audit Service culminating
in the failure of the service to release the 2013
Auditor General’s report on time.

This the group believes is an affront to the fight
against corruption in the country.

Speaking to Ultimate Radio, Spokesperson of the
group, Richard Nyamah accused President John
Dramani Mahama and the NDC administration of
showing little commitment to fighting corruption
in the country.

According to the group, the president was rather
“aiding corruption by failing to punish persons
found to have misappropriated public funds and
resources.”

Citing the GYEEDA, SUBA and the SADA scandals as
examples, he lashed out that government was rather
targeting the small fishes and leaving the big
guns in high political offices untouched.

Proffering solutions, Richard Nyamah suggested,
“the audit service is such an important body and
I will wish that they be allowed to levy the
various departments that they audit to generate
funds for their operations.”

This he said will keep the service liquid and
unattached to the stipends of the mother
institution it is mandated to audit.

Source - Ultimate radio

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