The Audit Service has presented to parliament all the 12 statutory Auditor-General’s Reports.
The reports include four performance audit reports required to be made available to the legislature by June 30, each year.
This is the first time in ten years the A-G has presented all the ten statutory reports.
Speaking in an interview with the Daily Graphic, the acting Auditor General, Mr Johnson Akuamoah-Asiedu, described the submission of all the reports before the June 30 deadline as a remarkable feat.
He posited that the reports would guide lawmakers in holding public office holders accountable.
He added that reports would also assist members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament who relied on such reports in the execution of PAC’s mandate.
The 12 reports include the Report of the Auditor-General on the Consolidated statements of Foreign Exchange Receipts and Payments of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for year ended 31 December 2020; Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Accounts of Ghana: Public Boards, Corporations and other statutory Institutions for the period ended 31 December, 2020; Report of the Auditor-General on the Accounts of District Assemblies for the year ended 31 December, 2020; Report of the Auditor-General on the management and utilisation of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund and other statutory funds for the year ended 31 December 2020.
Others are the Report of the Auditor-General on Pre-University Educational Institutions for the financial year ended 31 December, 2020; Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Accounts of Ghana: Technical Universities for the year ended 31 December, 2020; Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Accounts of Ghana, Ministries, Departments and other Agencies for the financial year ended 31 December, 2020, and Report of the Auditor-General on the Public Sector Accounts of Ghana (Central Government) for the year ended 31 December, 2020.
The rest are the Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General on Selected Road Works in the Greater Kumasi Metropolis; Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General on the Construction of 30, 1000MT Warehouses; Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General on the Provision of Adoption
Services by the Central Adoption Authority and the Department of Social Welfare, and the Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General on Regulating Reclamation Activities at Small-Scale Mining Sites.
The Acting Auditor-General stated that his office has partnered with PAC to ensure discipline among public officials when expending public resources.
“We have now deepened our relations with PAC because it will work on our reports; so immediately we submitted all the 12 reports to Parliament, we had a meeting with PAC members and answered their questions to help them understand,†he said.
SOURCE: DAILY GRAPHIC