The Majority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu says the leakage of the Auditor-General's (AG) report to the media before it gets to Parliament is a ‘bad practice’ that must cease.
He blamed the former Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo for setting that bad precedent before leaving office.
Speaking on NEAT FM’s morning show, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu noted that, worldwide, Auditor-Generals work closely with parliament and not the media – as being practised in Ghana.
“After their investigation, they submit a report to Parliament, but in our case, they [AG] will give the report to the media before it even gets to parliament,” he said.
“Domelevo started this, because of his rift with the government if you spoke about it it was as if you didn't support him, but what he started was not good for our democracy."
“The Auditor-general’s report is not complete until parliament approves,” he told host Akwesi Aboagye.
Listen to the full interview below
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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Yes, undoubtedly Domelevo was a very good auditor general. Unfortunately for him he talks too much. Always in a haste to go to the media. Instead of allowing his works to do the talking for him he was all over the place doing the talking for himself. Any bird that displays it's nest weaving skills ends up clipping it's own wing into the nest making it unable to fly. This was exactly what happened to Domelevo. He was the one who said he doesn't know how many times some Ghanaian workers will get to the retirement age of 60 as they keep backdating their date of birth only for it to turn out that he himself is a suspect of multiple dates of birth. In one instance it's 1960, in another instance he says 1961. If you live in a glass house, you don't throw stones. There and then his empire collapsed.