President Akufo-Addo has stated that his administration will not accept complacent or inept auditors.
He has urged the auditors in each area to effectively carry out their duties in closing public-sector leakages.
“…It has become routine for the Auditor-General to unearth incidents of financial mismanagement in the public sector that would otherwise go unnoticed until they surface.” As a result, we can’t help but conclude that the district auditors are either inept or complacent.
“We can’t afford auditors who are complacent in preventing the wrongdoing they’re supposed to prevent, and we certainly don’t need inept auditors.”
The President was addressing the maiden edition of the District Auditors’ Conference in Kumasi under the theme ”Ensuring the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the State Auditor in a Digitised Economy”.
President Akufo-Addo is unhappy with cases of financial malfeasance consistently uncovered at the Public Accounts Committee.
He said the country cannot have either complacent or incompetent officers.
“Every time we hear details of the report of the Auditor-General and hearings of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, we know the district auditors are not working as they should”.
Corruption
President Akufo-Addo emphasised that the fight against corruption can be effective if district auditors work as expected.
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He says when such public officers are digitally literate, the fight will be won.
“…being digitally literate will now be a necessary element in the professional make-up of all auditors.
He continued, “…I came to this function to emphasise, for the avoidance of doubt, that the district auditor is one of the primary weapons in the fight for the protection of the public purse and the fight against corruption”.
Meanwhile, Auditor-General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu expressed readiness to help in the fight against corruption.
The Audit Offices
Out of the 275 administrative districts, the Audit Service is located in only 76. But only 30 of them belong to the Service.
The Auditor-General, Mr Asiedu, revealed that their offices are either accommodated by the assemblies or in rented properties.
“…There is, therefore, no gainsaying that the service is in dire need of district offices and quite a number of them”.
