Auditor-General assures staff of addressing infrastructure problems

Tumu, May 26, GNA - Management of the Ghana Audit Service is working hard to address the inadequate infrastructure problems of the service, Mr Richard Quartey, the Auditor-General, has said.

He said the Service is present in only 73 out of 170 districts. Mr Quartey was addressing a durbar of staff of the Service in the three northern regions at Tumu.


He said management was collaborating with the Bawku Municipal Assembly to complete an abandoned project and is working to build offices in Tumu and Tamale and inaugurate district offices in Wa and Gambaga.


Mr Quartey said audit reports to Parliament had become a trigger for attracting funding from development partners to Ghana.


"Therefore, if we continue to work hard to deliver our reports on ti= me, more money would come to Ghana.

"This will lead to the improvement in budgetary allocation to Audit Service to enable the management and board to carry out its planned agenda for the Service," he said.


Mr Quartey said staff of the Service should not be implicated in any corruption scandal and added that management would not hesitate to weed out staff whose aim was to bring the image of the Service into disrepute.


Mr Woeli Kemevor, Board Chairman of the Service, said the Board had been able to secure approval for payment of salary arrears for two years. It has secured approval for salary arrears up to December 31 2010 which has been scheduled for payment this year.


Mr Kemevor said approval had been given for the recruitment of 290 staff for the Service while it is working towards obtaining slot for training in auditing of oil and gas.