The 34 civil society organisations and 10 highly regarded people that make up the Coalition for Democratic Accountability and Inclusive Governance have called on the administration to be accountable on a number of crucial national problems.
The list of CSOs also includes the Trades Union Congress, Institute for Democratic Governance, One Ghana Movement, Citizens Movement Against Corruption, The Fourth Estate, Africa Centre for Energy Policy, IMANI Africa, Africa Education Watch, STAR-Ghana, SEND Ghana, and the Ghana Integrity Initiative.
Akoto Ampaw, Martin Kpebu, Samson Lardy Anyenini, Clara Kasser-Tee, Profs. Kwame Karikari, Takyiwaa Manu, Kofi Abotsi, Kingsley Ofei, Prof. Bokpin, and Abdul Karim Mohammed are among the private persons.
The group claims it has serious worries about the nation's current socio-economic circumstances and governance problems.
The Coalition wants the government to stop the Agyapa contract it plans to modify and present to Parliament, among other things.
At a news conference, Nana Asantewaa Afadzinu spoke on behalf of the Coalition and urged the Auditor-General to carry out a forensic examination of the Finance Minister's Covid-19 expenditure.
The concerns surrounding the government's accounting of Covid-19 expenditure have been keenly studied by this coalition. It is crucial that the costs associated with donations made to fight the COVID-19 epidemic, for which Ghanaians continue to pay levies, are accurately recorded.
"We applaud the Speaker of the House of Commons' decision to charge the Parliamentary Select Committees on Health and Finance with investigating the figure's reconciliation. The disbursement for Covid-19 will be addressed by that, but the Auditor-General must immediately address the accounting for the actual expenses, she said.
According to the Coalition, the Auditor-General has to take swift action on this issue in the interest of public accountability.
The organisation also wants the government to reverse the Executive Instrument that reclassified sections of the Achimota Forest because they feel some political figures would profit from the change.
Dr. Kojo Asante, the Centre for Democratic Development's (CDD) director of advocacy and policy engagement, announced that the organisation will petition the Auditor-office General's later this week about the asset and liability disclosure and forensic audits of Covid-19 spending.
We'll be hiring the Auditor-General because it's a powerful, independent position that can make sure the Constitution's requirements are met. It is just unacceptable that something that the constitution requires has been disregarded for so long. Therefore, that is one area we will be trying to address, as well as to the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, of course," he said in an interview with Evans Mensah on Tuesday's edition of Newsnight.