Koforidua, Sept. 9, GNA - The Chairman of the Public
Accounts Committee of Parliament, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, has
appealed to District, Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives
to supervise the financial administration of their assemblies to
avoid embarrassment.
He said this at the end at the end of a two-day public sitting of
the Public Accounts Committee in Koforidua during which 24
District Assemblies from Greater Accra, Volta and Eastern
regions appeared before the committee to answer financial queries
raised in the Auditor General's Report of the assemblies for the
period January 1st 2001 to December 31st, 2004.
Mr Kan-Dapaah said the committee decided to move from
Accra to the regions to enable the people to see how those who
were entrusted with the finances of government were being made
to account for them.
He called on newly appointed Chief Executives of the
assemblies to be interested in the handing over notes of their
predecessors and cultivate a good relationship with them so that
they could call on them to explain issues that were not clear to
them.
Mr Kan-Dapaah called on the assemblies to read the Auditor
General's report about them and take necessary measures to
recover all debts owned the assemblies.
He called for the establishment of a truly independent
Auditor General so that the report would be respected by all
political parties.
