The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has revealed that despite government’s interventions in fighting corruption in the public sector, the situation still persist.<\/p>\n
According to Dr. Michael Ofori-Mensah, a Senior Research Fellow at the IEA, Ghana continues to record identical cases of misappropriation of public funds \u201coften within the same public institutions,\u201d on a year-to-year basis.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”EBGiUQCFZh0jLkoeFIvFclM7HXWSathG”]\u201cIn some sections of the public sector, a culture of impunity to embezzle has taken grip. It will be apt to describe public financial management as in a state of permanent crisis,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n
He said one of the deep-rooted governance problems Ghana faces is the lack of effective public financial management adding that weak internal controls in public institutions “accounts for a significant number of financial irregularities.”<\/p>\n
Ghana in recent times has recorded a number of corruption. Some of them include financial malfeasance recorded in the Savannah Accelerated Authority<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>(SADA) programme, GYEEDA<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and the infamous payment of GH\u00a251 million to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome.<\/p>\n But according to Dr. Ofori-Mensah, “Effective enforcement of remedial measures will require a collective approach – with Parliament conducting enhanced oversight; the Judiciary taking steps to educate the public on the FAC, as well as ensuring cases which come before the courts are dealt with expeditiously; the Executive providing the Audit Service with adequate resources and also compelling ARICs to fulfill their statutory duties.|<\/p>\n The research fellow however urged government to institute punitive measures to enforce section 30 of the Audit Service Act, <\/em>2000 (Act 584).<\/p>\n \u201cUnder the above section, Audit Report Implementation Committees (ARICs) – the intra-departmental units in public offices – are charged with enforcing the Auditor-General\u2019s recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n He also \u00a0pleaded for the financial and technical capacity of Parliament to be strengthened while calling\u00a0for adequate measures to be put in place to ensure \u201cthe Financial Administrative Courts (FACs) – established under section 66 (1) of the Financial Administration Act, 2003 (Act 654) – are utilized.\u201d<\/p>\n The Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Ms Vivian Lauretta Lamptey is currently being investigated<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by the Attorney General\u2019s Department for spending huge taxpayers money on hotel bills<\/strong><\/a><\/span> instead of occupying her official residence.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has revealed that despite government’s interventions in fighting corruption in the public sector, the situation still persist. According to Dr. Michael Ofori-Mensah, a Senior Research Fellow at the IEA, Ghana continues to record identical cases of misappropriation of public funds \u201coften within the same public institutions,\u201d on a year-to-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-74310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}