A staff of the Controller and Accountants General's Department has stolen more than 115,000 while on secondment at the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2014.
This was contained in the Auditor-General's report for 2015, currently before Parliament's Public Accounts Committee.
The staff, Gilbert Kwesi Mensah Addison forged Bank of Ghana pay-in slips to make 115,882 cedis.
According to the report, Gilbert Addison admitted to stealing and explained he used the money to build a garage, one living room, one store room.
He also bought personal items and constructed a wall around his property in the Western Region.
He was charged by the Police but is still walking free.
The revelation is one of many recurring stories of stealing and misappropriation in the public sector as recorded annually by the Auditor-General.
Last April, Alex Smart, an auctioneer admitted to Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), he earned a commission for no work done after the auctioning of 24 state vehicles in a manner the Auditor-General describes as irregular.For 25 years, persons indicted by the Auditor-General have generally escaped prosecution.
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee usually questions officials named in the report and after huffing and puffing, little is done to punish officials engaged in mismanagement and corruption.
But a Supreme Court order last June, has charged the Auditor-General to surcharge indicted persons.
Article 187, Clause 7(b) (i) of the states: ".... the Auditor-General may disallow any item of expenditure which is contrary to law and surcharge the amount of any expenditure disallowed upon the person responsible for incurring or authorising the expenditure.
This is further stated in the Audit Service Act 2000 (Act 584) Section 17(1-2).
Since the Supreme Court order, the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo has revealed, 11 persons have been asked to pay back monies lost to the state.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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NOW YOU KNOW WHY WE CANNOT BLAME POLITICIANS ALL THE TIME.
What kind of fooooooooolish thing is going on in Ghana. If these are the things people do, we should stop talking about developing the country. How can people steal like this and walk free and yet we say we are 'developing'. This country is very stuuuuuuuupppppiddd. The people who run the country are jokers and bloooooody edddddiots.
SO SAD HOW CAN WE DEVELOP AS A NATION WITH THESE CORRUPT PRACTICES NO FOREIGNER IS DESTROYING THE COUNTRY BUT OURSELVES. I FEEL WHEN ANYONE STEALS FROM THE PUBLIC PURSE, THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY BACK THE MONEY WITH INTEREST AND ALSO JAILED FOR NOT LESS THAN TWENTY YEARS DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT STOLEN THIS WOULD DETER PEOPLE FROM STEALING FROM THE STATE. I REST MY CASE.
THE AUDITORS ARE AS CORRUPT AS HELL, WHEN THEY GET SOME OF THE MONEY THEY HELP U COVER IT BUT WHEN U FAIL TO GIVE THEM THEN THEY EXPOSE U. AUDITOR GENERAL CLEAN YOUR HOUSE VERY WELL.
You don't understand why people cited for corruption in Ghana walk free? The simple fact is that, almost everybody is tainted with corruption, one way or the other. Therefore, those supposed to prosecute lack the moral right and/or afraid to do that else they would also be exposed.
Please auditor general, let us know the 11 in question
A country with bunch of foooolss..people steal money and you allow them to walk freely,after that you go to church and pray asking God for a miracle...i dont know why we have too many foooli$h and greedy people in ghana