Auditor-General(A-G) Daniel Yao Domelovo is pleading with the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo for more time to access, collate and file evidence and documents he claims to have based his purported disallowance and surcharge decision on against Osafo-Maafo and four other eminent public officers.
Mr. Domelovo has refused to file the said documents in the high court 14 days after service of the appeal filed by Mr. Osafo-Maafo and the four others contrary to the provisions of the applicable law which deems such conduct a contempt of the High Court.
This prompted the Senior Minister and the others to comply with the law by citing the A-G for contempt of the Accra High Court. Subsequent to the publication of the contempt application, the A-G, in a letter sighted by this media platform is pleading with Mr. Osafo-Maafo and the four others for “further period of 14 days” after he has failed to comply with the law more than a month ago.
It is yet to be known whether the Senior Minister and the four others have the power to grant the plea being made by the Auditor-General Daniel Domelovo.
BACKGROUND
The Auditor-General was mandated to file with the Registry of the High Court copies of all documents he was required to rely on before making a decision on disallowance and surcharge 14 days from 13th December, 2019, when, according to the court registry, he was served with the said notice of Appeal.
Based on information already in the public domain Mr. Osafo-Maafo and the four others believe that the Auditor-General could not produce any document in accordance with the provisions of Order 54A rule 5(1) within the period provided by the law because he did not have any audit working papers, since if he did, he could have readily accessed and filed them within 14 days.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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So based on what are you surcharging them? I do not get it. What was the motive of making it public if the documents are not on your table. Or are you being pushed? Think about your hard worn credibility because you may not have time to redeem yourself considering your age
Was look at people fighting corruption. A ***barred word*** has rather taken owner of the stolen items to court ? These are some of the Impossible Possible Things that only happens in Ghana and only in the regime of Nana Akuffu Addo and NPP
I wonder why the Mr. Domelovo did not study the audit report well. NPP gov is always involved in tricks and mischief. I will not be surprised if this whole issue that seem to boomerang is well rehearsed plan to put the auditor gen. in trouble. Authentic documents used for surcharging should have been scanned and soft copy kept on his private pen or external hard drive. Blunder, you see what you have been reduced to. Never trust NPP gov on things like this, my late auntie told me before passing on
AAAAH, SO WHAT WAS THE BASIS OF INDICTING THE SENIOR MINISTER AND CO. DOES IT MEAN HE READILY DOES NOT HAVE ANY REPORTS? THEN WHAT TYPE OF AUDITING DID HE DO. HEARSAY AUDITING? HE HAS BITTEN THE BULLET, LET HIM SWALLOW IT.
Who is begging who? Gutter journalists. Is it not the court demanding the documents? Why should you guys give such headline? Always twisting the facts.