Daniel Yaw Domelevo, a former Auditor-General (A-G), has shared how he was frustrated by the ruling government when it felt his work was making it unpopular.
The A-G whose responsibilities are enshrined in the Constitution says he was stopped from performing his role when certain elements within the government felt his works were exposing their deeds.
Quoting the vociferous PLO Lumumba, Mr. Domelevo said he misread his terms of reference just as the venerable Professor once said, making him realise he ought to pretend to be fighting corruption instead of fighting the canker itself.
In an interview on Onua TV’s morning show, Maakye, Monday, April 01, 2024, he told host Captain Smart that he wrote to the President how he has been impeded from fighting the menace.
“PLO Lumumba said he misread his terms of reference when he was appointed to fight corruption. And I believe it is the same with me, I misread my terms of reference. And he said he thought the terms of reference was for him to fight corruption but the actual thing was to pretend to be fighting corruption.
“So that was what I also did, I misread my terms because the Auditor-General’s terms of reference are not written to the office by anybody, it is in the Constitution,” he stated.
When asked if he thinks he was stopped from fighting corruption, Mr. Domelevo said “Oh yes, from my point of view I was actually stopped from fighting corruption. And I wrote that to the President when the letter came for me to go on leave. I said no, I have a constitutional mandate to issue audit reports within six months after the end of the financial year, so we were at the end of June and the audits had delayed and so I could not stop and go,” he disclosed.
He added that he told the President “my audits are disturbing you so you want me to stop and go on leave.”
Daniel Yaw Domelevo is an accountant who currently serves as a Board member of the Global Fund. He is a former Auditor-General of Ghana. He was appointed by John Dramani Mahama in 2016 to replace Richard Quartei Quartey who had retired from public service.
But President Akufo-Addo ousted him from office citing some reasons which the Supreme Court later found unfounded.
