A fellow at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare has described as “unconstitutional and unusual” the President's directive for Auditor General, Daniel Domelovo to go on retirement.
A March 3 communiqué from the Presidency read: “the attention of the President of the Republic has been drawn to records and documents made available to this Office by the Audit Service, that indicate that your date of birth is 1st June, 1960, and that in accordance with article 199 (1) of the Constitution, your date of retirement as Auditor-General was 1st June, 2020”.
Speaking to this on Joy Newsfile programme, Prof Kwaku Asare said even though this act may not be related to the resignation of former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, "it seems the President has a difficulty in working with independent constitutional officers"
“This issue of Mr. Domelevo’s forced retirement may not be related to the removal of the Electoral Commission Chair. It may not be related to the resignation of the Special Prosecutor, but when you put all of that together it paints a mosaic of a President who seems to have difficulty in working with independent constitutional officers unless the constitutional officers were appointed by him...”
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Beginning January 2019, the Auditor General’s office will embark on an exercise to go after workers, who have deliberately tampered with their dates of birth, to enable them to continue to stay in employment in state institutions, even though they have technically reached the retirement age. According to the Auditor General, Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo, his office has already obtained the database on some suspects and they will be going after them in 2019 He said the database on the suspects have been obtained from Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), the Driver and Vehicular Licensing Authority (DVLA) where the suspects procured some services and left copies of their real dates of birth there. The exercise, according to Mr Domelevo would also ensure that workers in the employment of the state, particularly in subvented institutions entered with the correct qualifications and certificates and were doing the right jobs according to their qualifications. This, according to him was to help clean the payroll system and enable the Audit Service to properly document the database gathered from various government agencies. “Early next year, we are going to start with the subvented agencies such as Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the universities, all the subvented institutions, the Police, the Army, we are going to all of them to be sure that if you were recruited as a policeman, did you bring the right certificates and that is what you are doing,” Mr Domelevo said in an interview with Radio Ghana, which was monitored by Graphic Online.
To me, the threat to our democracy is the Unbridled and irresponsible journalism and the SO-CALLED KNOW-ALL Think Tanks. They are the same people who say if you want equity, then come with clean hands. In fact they would have been much respected if they were educating the populace than their BIASED position against government. These PROF. KNOW-ALLs were in the country when the Ghanaian bank were sinking but there is no record of them at anytime preferring any solution to it but when this Government took over the reigns of government worked towards cleaning it, they were now everywhere providing all kinds of unworkable solutions the banking crises. Where were you in the first place? As for known bloated register and their ***barred word*** noices, the more one stay silent on it the better.
Prof Kwaku Azar and HO Kwesi Prempeh are great academic guys and lawyers. The presidency is a real time actual implementation of theories. Previous EC boss: she was fighting with all her deputies and everyone. Allegations and counter allegations. The president did not appoint her nor any of her deputies.they disgraced themselves. Martin Armidu: president appointed him and he was over resourced contrary to what people believe. He was just not 360 degrees enough to run the all important office of SP. he took off because he could not deliver. Ghanaians were on him for results and not the president.A theorist who could not practicalize his thoughts. He writes profusely and but could not lead people to execute his mandate. Domelovo: A complete egocentric Technocrat. How could he run a one man show audit system.His time of appointment was polically motivated and he did his work in a politically mischievous manner. Commonsense and education are two different departments of the brain. John Mahama used his presidential authority to appoint him mischievously and Nana Addo used his presidential authority to disappoint him mischievously because he was playing mischieve to the advantage of the appointing president in an election year whilst the sitting president was seen as weak by his own party and other supporters. If you live in a thatched house you don't stock the embers of charcoal fire.Prof Azar and HO Prempeh your comments during the Supreme Election Petition hearings and after the final ruling tell me you are great Academicians but please theories don't cook beans, they only tell you the ingredients for cooking beans. Court room drama is different than lecture room drama
Mr big mouth, who appointed Martin Amidu? Please don't waste our ears. You are becoming a nuisance. Ghanaians are becoming fed up with you. Knowledge is not in one person's head