GHANA’S Minister of Communications Dr Edward Omane Boamah has welcomed calls on the Auditor General (AG) Department to, within 30 days, recover all stolen public monies documented in its reports over the past eleven years.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme on Thursday, he said “this is a good call, we are all interested in monies being retrieved.”
He stated emphatic that the government and citizens at large are in favour of any action that will retrieve monies from public officials who engaged in corrupt acts.
However Dr Boamah dismissed assertions that nothing was being done to implement details of the auditor General’s report.
The Minister told viewers of the programme:”Day in [and] day out, monies are being retrieved from people who are known to have been corrupt”.
Dr Boamah’s comments come in the wake of a 30 day ultimatum to the AG by Occupy Ghana, asking the government to retrieve all stolen and unaccounted for monies documented in the AG’s reports over the past eleven years.
The group threatened to bring a legal action against the AG if it fails to do what the constitution mandates it to do.
The Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, Henrietta Brew Oppong-Appiah and the President had been served with the notices, according to the pressure group.
Dr Boamah commended the group but saying they should not be deceived into thinking that nothing was being done about the various reports by the audit implementation committees and that government was not relenting on its efforts to bring perpetrators of corrupt acts to book.
African Eye News.com
