A member of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has mentioned the Committee is shifting away from cautioning administrators of state establishments for infractions in thier monetary stories to referring them for prosecution.
Mr Dafeamekpor indicated that leakages within the system are costing the nation large sums of cash.
“We are moving from mere caution to Prosecution. A lot of leakages in the system and so this time we will not caution we will refer for prosecution,” he mentioned on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, January 21.
Chairman of the PAC James Klutse Avedzi has referred heads of 26 well being establishments to the Attorney General for prosecution for over purchases with out procurement amounting to five.8 million cedis.
This was contained within the public accounts of ministries and departments as of December 2020.
Mr Avedzi mentioned the state can not lose such monies out of the negligence of the heads.
The Committee additional raised eyebrows over using 2.8 million {dollars} and 1.79 Euros for the cost of lease for dwelling-based mostly employees of 21 missions by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.
The Auditor General in its 2020 report described the cost of those rents as uneconomic and really useful using mortgage techniques to curtail the scenario.
But showing earlier than the committee, the Acting Chief Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ramses Joseph Cleland mentioned the proposed mortgage system of lodging for missions has been a problem.
By Laud Nartey/3news.com/Ghana
Source: 3news.com
