Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the majority leader and minister for parliamentary affairs, has recently criticized the recent disclosure of audit findings before their examination by Parliament.
He said that to prevent the public from unfairly judging the persons, auditors general across the world submit their findings to the legislature for review before they are made public.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said in a Neat FM interview that GhanaWeb was listening to that the former Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo, was the one who started publicising audit findings before them being investigated by Parliament.
"All auditor generals present their reports to their respective legislatures," But, following their investigations, you can observe our Auditor-Generals demanding payments from people before releasing their results.
Typically, once Parliament examines the audit reports, we realise that the auditors did not do their job effectively and that people's reputations have been damaged for no reason. Auditors are shown pleading with those they have wrongfully accused.
"These things began during the Domelevo era. But because of the conflict, he was having with the government, if you disagree with him, people start to assume you are against him. He remarked in Twi, "But what he started was not beneficial for our democracy.
The Attorney-audit General of the Government's Covid-19 transactions was published on the Auditor Service website. According to the opinion expressed by the Majority Leader, who is also a Member of Parliament for Suame,
After being discussed in Parliament and sent to the relevant committee of Parliament by article 187(6) of the Constitution, the Auditor General is required to withdraw the report and make it public.
Parts of the opinion by the Minister for Justice said, "The constitutional responsibility of the Auditor-General to present his reports to Parliament and Parliament's concomitant obligation to discuss and evaluate same will be 'grossly affected' by the previous publication of the report.
The Auditor-General is a member of the Auditor General's Department, which is a division of the Public Services Commission, and the constitution requires him to provide legal advice to all agencies under the commission, according to Godfred Dame, who came forward after receiving criticism for his opinion.
The Attorney-General can provide advice to the Auditor-General by his authority under Article 88 of the Constitution because "...the letter and spirit of laws governing the work of the Auditor-General make him part of the Audit Service of Ghana and, therefore, a regular member of the public services of Ghana.
" The Constitution's Article 189(2), which states that, gives a hint. Parts of a statement he released stated that "the Audit Service Board, operating in cooperation with the Public Services Commission, shall make the appointment of officers and other personnel in the Audit Service, other than the Auditor-General."
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