Former Auditor-General and a member of the Preparatory team for Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL), Daniel Yao Domelevo has bemoaned the current measures for persons who engage in financial malfeasance in state enterprises.
He explained that this has caused persons to continue to perpetuate the corrupt act of embezzling state funds without appropriate punitive actions meted out to them.
“There’s not sufficient deterrence to stop people from abusing public funds. One of your panelists actually made a passionate point on people stealing goats and they are expeditiously trialed and jailed.
“We are not angry towards people who steal public funds enough. I have said time and again that because there is not sufficient consequence for wrongdoing, people keep doing them,” he stated in an interview on TV3 Key Points, Saturday, November 1, 2025.
The recent 2024 Auditor-General report indicated a figure 18.4 billion in financial irregularities in public boards and statutory institutions.
These reports, which focus on areas like payroll, procurement, and cash management, are submitted to Parliament for action, but enforcement and recovery of funds have become a challenge.
President Mahama while bemoaning these financial irregularities that are recorded every year, announced plans by his government to establish special courts to expedite the handling of cases arising from audit infractions identified in the Auditor-General’s Report.
This decision was reached following a high-level meeting on Monday, October 20, 2025, between the President John Dramani Mahama, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General, and the Auditor-General.
Daniel Domelevo commended the President for such an initiative to handle these infractions identified by the Auditor-General each year.
“Let me say that the action being taken by the President is commendable. It is good that we have dedicated courts that will handle these infractions that the Auditor-General bring out every year,” he added.
