The Internal Audit Agency (IAA) will, from this year, refer people cited for corruption in quarterly audit reports to the office of the Special Prosecutor and the Attorney General`s Department for prosecution.
The agency has also resolved to publish the names of institutions that fail to submit their quarterly internal audit reports to the public financial watchdog, in accordance with the law.
Those measures, the IAA said, would ensure the speedy resolution of alleged corrupt practices in the public sector, deter people from such practices and also entrench efficiency and compliance with the law. Director-General of IAA, Dr. Eric Oduro Osae, disclosed in an interview on the sidelines of the launch of the 2020 Financial Year Audit in Accra.
Dr. Osae said unlike previously when the annual Auditor General`s Report was relied on to prosecute people accused of indulging in financial malpractice in public institutions, such people would now be referred to the A-G and the Special Prosecutor for prosecution ahead of the commencement of an external audit at the end of a financial year.
