The Supreme Court has ordered the Auditor General to, with immediate effect, begin surcharging persons found to have misappropriated monies belonging to the state.
The seven-member panel of justices, presided over by incoming Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, did not give any reasons for their judgment but indicated they make available the full details of the decision in some few hours.
The order of the court follows a suit filed by pressure group Occupy Ghana in June 2016 seeking an order directing the Auditor-General to issue Disallowances and Surcharges to and in respect of all persons and entities found in his relevant, successive Reports to have engaged in misappropriation of state funds.
Occupy Ghana in 2014 wrote a letter to the Auditor General reminding it to surcharge such persons or face them in court.
A statement issued by the pressure group said, it filed a case against the two Generals at the Supreme Court last Wednesday [June 22, 2016], because several efforts to ensure that the Auditor General makes such surcharges have proved futile.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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mark is an NDC gay guy
I am sorry for my earlier comment, I am obviously a bigggg fuuul and i do not know what i am talking about. I deserve to be screwed in my anussss
Please try to make sense when you are making your comment.Did the order exclude the judiciary and the answer is No. Are you one of the many NDC T'hieves or one of the public office holder s'tealing from left,right center
Together with the Special Prosecutor collecting state funds from some individuals, the country Ghana will have money to work again. NO MERCY FOR THE CRIPPLE.
@mark its obvious u are an ug.ly f0oli$h mammal.you want some few people to steal and enjoy ghana's money?....siaaa boy
@Mark, I beg what is your beef here. Has any of Ghana´s money mistakenly pass through your "corrupt" hands. You better redirect it to where it´s suppose to be or else #OccupyGhana will in the not too distant future come after characters like you.
Ghana will work again if such actions are taken. The state should not only take the monies but proceed to court to jail the corrupt officials.
Hasty decisions not bad at all when it is about corruption or misappropriation of state funds however is it well thought through or fulfilment of an affiliate pro pressure group's tantrums. It will live forever to even hunt the corrupt Judiciary itself mark it on a wall.