The alleged embezzlement of GHC 576,000 at the Keta Municipal Hospital in the Volta Region by the hospital’s accountant and his assistant took the centre stage of the Public Accounts Committee’s (IPAC’s) sitting yesterday with members expressing shock at how internal checks could be so loose as to enable the two people to steal the money.
Hayford Asilenudzi, the accountant and his assistant, Francis Dagbale, allegedly misappropriated the said money from the Internally Generated Fund of the hospital by altering 96 signed cheques between January 2010 and May 2011 - changing the original figures and words on the already signed cheques by the medical superintendent.
Between that period, the two people were said to have withdrawn that money from the hospital’s account for which payment vouchers were prepared and authorized by the medical superintendent.
The two have already been arrested and put before court but of the amount, they have refunded just GHC20,000 leaving a whopping GHC556,000 outstanding.
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