Domelevo committed no crime publishing list of GETFund beneficiaries – Prof Azar defends

Professor of Accounting and Lawyer Stephen Kwaku Asare alias Kwaku Azar has defended Auditor General Daniel Yaw Domelevo’s decision to publish supposed beneficiaries of Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) without first consulting them to ascertain whether or not they actually got the money.

Prof Azar, whose expert research focuses on understanding and improving audit decision making, argued that the Auditor-General did a compliance audit and not a disbursements audit, and therefore the argument that he should have consulted with each and every beneficiary to verify whether or not they received the scholarship money is unfounded.

“There is nothing wrong with the AG [Auditor General] publishing the list of GB [GETFund Beneficiaries]. This list should be on GETFUND’s website to start with.

The AG was performing a compliance audit not a beneficiary disbursements audit. Contacting beneficiaries provides no useful evidence on whether GETFUND complied with its mandate under ACT 581,” he argued on Social Media.

Prof Azar, known for his erudite commentary on and defence of the law, insisted that it is problematic for the Office of the Special Prosecutor to accept to investigate the Airbus Scandal that alleged wrongdoing on the part of some Ghana government officials and ignore investigating GETFund beneficiaries, adding that those who accept the work of the UK Serious Fraud Office(SFO) that investigated and uncovered the Airbus Scandal, must accept the compliance audit of the Auditor-General.

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The Auditor-General did not have to contact GB81 for the same reason that the UK SFO did not have to contact GO1.

You cannot praise the UK SFO while condemning the Ghana AG.

Nor can the Special Prosecutor act on the UK SFO report while being willfully blind to the Ghana AG GETFUND Compliance Audit.

There is nothing wrong with the AG publishing the list of GB. This list should be on GETFUND’s website to start with.

The AG was performing a compliance audit not a beneficiary disbursements audit. Contacting beneficiaries provides no useful evidence on whether GETFUND complied with its mandate under ACT 581.

But this is Ghana.

128/1820 is a bona fide scam and sham.

Da Yie!