By: Edzorna Francis Mensah
The Opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, has called for the prosecution of Ministers named in the Auditor General’s report for causing various infractions related to COVID-19 expenditure.
According to the NDC, the Special Prosecutor should investigate all Ministers and public officials who have been cited in the report for wrongdoing and bring them to book as it has also called on the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) “to expedite its public hearings on this Special Audit Report into COVID-19 expenditures. This hearing should be televised live for the Ghanaian public to follow and be apprised of how their government expended COVID-19 funds”.
The National Communication Officer of the Party, Sammy Gyamfi who addressed the media on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at the party’s Headquarters in Accra, urged Parliament to compel the Auditor-General to exercise his powers of surcharge and disallowance to retrieve all COVID-19 funds misapplied or misused through various infractions and veritable acts of criminality.
As part of demands for a series of actions on the report, the party called on the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to compel the Auditor-General to exercise his power of surcharge and disallowance to “retrieve all COVID-19 funds that have been misapplied or misused through various infractions and veritable acts of criminality”.
