The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame to immediately withdraw what the party describes as an unconstitutional and distasteful letter to the Auditor-General and cease from any further intrusion into the mandate of the Auditor-General.
In a statement signed by the National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, “the party condemns in no uncertain terms this ungodly interference and intrusion into the mandate of the Auditor-General by someone who ought to know better”.
It continued that, “We need not remind the Attorney-General that Article 187(7)(a) of the 1992 Constitution guarantees the independence of the Auditor-General. It explicitly provides that, the Auditor-General in the performance of his duties, is not subject to the direction or control of any person or authority”.
The Auditor General in his recent report made public the Special Audit of COVID-19 expenditures of the Government of Ghana for the period March 2020 to June 2022.
The publication of the report has caused a series of discussions from various groups and parties which the Attorney-General is not in support of thus asked the Auditor General to remove the report from the public domain.
According to the NDC, the letter addressed to the Auditor General is unconstitutional and therefore insists the letter be withdrawn and allows the Auditor General to work independently.
The party added that “as the principal legal advisor to the corrupt Akufo-Addo/Bawumia Government, the Attorney-General is obviously worried by the putrefying rot that has been uncovered by the Auditor-General regarding how COVID-19 funds were grossly misused by functionaries of the government”.
“However, we cannot help the fears of the Attorney-General who has to be reminded in very clear terms that, the Auditor-General’s fidelity is to the laws of this country and not him”, the statement said.
The National Democratic Congress further called on Civil Society Organizations, the media, moral society and all well-meaning Ghanaians to rise and condemn this assault on the independence of the Auditor-General by the Attorney General.
