wrote a letter<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to the Auditor General reminding it to surcharge such persons or face them in court.<\/p>\nA\u00a0statement issued by the pressure group said, it filed a case against the two Generals at the Supreme Court on Wednesday [June 22, 2016], because several efforts to ensure that the Auditor General makes such surcharges have proved futile.<\/p>\n
The group in the statement said, in November 2014, it wrote a letter, \u201creminding him [ Auditor-General] of his powers of Disallowance and Surcharge under the Constitution, demanding that he exercises them\u2026Subsequently we engaged several times\u00a0with the Auditor-General, with a view to assisting in putting in place the structures upon which he would exercise those powers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRegrettably, after a dozen letters and exchanges, and one publicized meeting on 27th March 2015, the Auditor-General has not taken any steps to exercise those powers, which would lead to the recovery of huge sums of money for the State,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
Occupy Ghana had prayed the Supreme Court to declare \u00a0\u201cthat the Auditor-General\u2019s omission, failure, refusal or neglect to issue any Disallowances and Surcharges in respect of the above, and as appears in his successive Reports since the coming into force of the Constitution, violates the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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