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Auditor-General goes wild over financial malfeasance
Mr Quartey said the Auditor-General's reports are not treated with the seriousness they deserve.
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This was as a result of the failure of officials of the assemblies to pay in revenue collected, retire imprests granted for official assignments or provide evidence to support the receipt and utilisation of goods and services totalling GH¢1,012,953.41.
The Auditor-General, Richard Quartey also bemoaned the non-implementation of its reports submitted to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament for action.
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"It is quite frustrating and it appears as if amounts of money invested in the work that we have done are going down the drain", he said.
According to Mr. Quartey, the relevance of auditing is for corrective actions to be taken by the PAC.
He explained that after the Auditor General's Department has submitted its audited reports to Parliament; PAC is expected to hold public hearings and later submit another report to the House for deliberations.
Mr Quartey said because of the inaction of PAC, his outfit has been encouraging the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to set up an internal Audit Recommendation Committee to implement the reports.
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Mr Quartey said its reports are not treated with the seriousness they deserve.
Unearned salaries
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered the Ghana Education Service to return GH¢131,255 unearned salaries of a total of 69 former employees in the Half Assini in the Western region and the Mampong municipality of the Ashanti Region to the state coffers.
The 2012 and 2013 Auditor General's Report made the disclosure that the former employees had been paid unearned salaries since 2011.
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When the PAC sought clarification from the Jomoro District Director of Education, Mr Blay-Ackah Quayson, on the latest on the money in Accra Wednesday, March 3, 2016, he indicated that the office was unable to trace the former employees.
He said the difficulty was that the people were no longer in the service of the GES, while some of them were reported to be dead.
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