Internal Audit Agency embarks on recruitment exercise

Accra, Oct. 2, GNA - The Internal Audit Agency is undertaking an aggressive recruitment of staff to ensure that at least half of the 434 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have functional internal audit units by the close of the year.

Currently, the Agency has so far trained 624 existing Internal Audit Staff, who are working in 77 MDAs and seven metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs).

Mr Patrick Nomo, Director-General of the Agency, who announced this in Accra on Tuesday, said the move was in line with government's desire to enhance transparency and accountability in the management of the country's financial resources. He was speaking at an orientation programme for newly recruited Internal Audit Staff of MDAs.

The three-day training programme is to equip participants with in-depth understanding of laws on public procurement, financial administration and regulation as well as Internal Audit Agency Act. Trainees would be introduced to the audit process, audit planning, audit execution and reporting and follow-up and how to facilitate the setting up of internal audit units.

He said the Internal Audit Agency was committed to establishing a professional auditing system for effective and efficient utilization of public resources through development and implementation of an internal audit practice framework and human resource capacity development. Mr Nomo urged the participants to live by the values of accountability, discipline and transparency to assure Ghanaians that their resources were being used to promote their best interest. Mr Edwin Barnes, Chief Director Office of the Head of the Civil Service, asked the participants to pay attention to procedures and understand the goals of the organization in the performance of their task.

"To be successful in the performance of your task it is necessary to go beyond mere accounting by paying attention to details and what the institution is set up to do," he said.