Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) has exposed the fact that it paid GHC350,000 to the Auditor-General Service to conduct the recent infamous auditing, but the service failed to go through the proper legal procedure in submitting the audit report.
This comment follows controversies that emerged after the Auditor General published names of Members of Parliament, politicians and others who had allegedly benefitted from the GETfund educational scholarship.
Normally per their mandate, the Service was to send the audited report to parliament and then to the Public Accounts Committee where GETFund will be summoned to answer to some questions.
However, the Administrator of GETFund, Richard Boadu in an exclusive interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, said "this was not done".
Ordinarily, he said, he does not speak to issues on-air, but was forced to go public after the A-G and his assigns hopped from one radio station to the other justifying the "incomplete" report.
“What I don’t understand is why they didn’t give us the final copy when we requested for the auditing? We saw it in the newspapers. It should have gone to Parliament and then to the Public Accounts Committee and then we will be called to respond but not on a radio station. But I realized he is going around talking about the issue and so I decided to speak out because we have nothing to hide,” he stated.
Mr Boadu further revealed that contrary to claims by the Auditor-General that the service undertook the audit in line with its mandate, as captioned in its transmittal letter to Parliament which partly reads: "I have the honour to submit to you a performance audit report on the administration of Scholarships by GETFund Secretariat in accordance with my mandate under Article 187(2) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, Sections 13(e) and 16 of the Audit Service Act, 2000 (Act 584) which provide that I may carry out performance and special audits," it was his outfit (GETFund) that "requested" and paid for that particular audit, and brandished correspondence to buttress the claim.
"We requested for the audit. I have a proof of giving them GHC350,000 to do the auditing because they claim they don’t have money. They then brought a draft and asked that we add 2017 and 2018 to avoid the accusation of witch-hunting previous administration…even looking at the report, we realized it fell short. It seems he intentionally captioned it; members of parliament, politicians media practitioners and so on awarded scholarship. According to him, they are not needy; hence should not be given the scholarship,” the GETFund Administrator added.
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Obi Ba, indeed, you have said it all, thus, behind AG's deportment, is an ostensible purpose of vigilantism against corruption but his real goal is to produce ammunition for his party NDC to fire his opponent NPP'. Clearly, the AG is biased working hard to favor his party NDC.
@Villas and Jacob..This is not to attack your personality but I think that your parents have wasted their monies..Did u listen to the interview and the documentary evidence he gave to Kwame Sefa that HE INVITED THE AG TO COME AND DO THE AUDIT.. He didn't even speak Swahili or Chinese but twi and u still cant deduce something from the interview..The AG has not been fair to GETFUND and Ghanaians.. He has lied to us.. Please I will edge everybody to listen to the interview again so that descending minds can make informed choices as to who is telling the truth
THIS NDC A-G IS DOING THE BIDDING NOF HIS PAY MASTERS, THE NDC. ITS AS CLEAR AS DAY LIGHT!!!CAN ANY SENSIBLE DUDE DISPUTE THIS?
Your claims are not needed hear please. You have been exposed by the auditor General and you need to be fired direct.
The AG is doing a good job. He is actively exposing corrupt official and politicians. I am happy the President has faith in him and has kept him. It ia not about NPP or NDC. We are just blessed the govt has appointed a good auditor who is actively tackling corruption. It could be that the previous AG did not do a good job. IF the AG has done something wrong please expose him. Do not wait when you are exposed and you start cooking stories. It is irrelevant if the GETFund funded the audit or called for it, the audit mandate remains the same.
Each year 4000 students graduate from the University of Ghana-Legon, KNUST, and Cape Coast University. So all together, these three top universities produce 12000 graduates each year. No student graduates without submitting a dissertation or thesis. These theses are the results of careful research conducted by students. The question is who reads them. Many brilliant students have conducted research into many fields and submitted their research findings which are in our universities. Do ministers read them? Do the various directors in our ministries read them? Do district chief executives read them? It is obvious that we have not structured our government to learn from research findings. Research finding simply mean new knowledge. This must change. Akufo-Addo must lead!+
@ pk I agree with u.. People should go back and listen to the administrator again.. He needs to tell his story for the country to hear.. According to the administrator students scholarships is only 5 percent of the work they do over there and construction is about 95 percent and since he came they have streamline the way they even award contract.. But people are not listening well and rather praising the AG.. Ghana we have a long way.. The man even spoke twi but still some people pretending they didnt listen
I don't know what people listen to on this platform.. Please all of on this platform kindly play the interview again and listen to what the administrator said. He was the one who contracted the AG to come and audit GETFUND because he released that they need to change certain things in the office.. The AG told him that they dont have money to audit GETFUND so that if he the administrator can pay for their services then they will come and audit them. so according to the Administrator they paid for the AG to come and audit them. Now when u finish your audit the person who contracted u to come and audit them u fail to even give them copy of your report and rather put the report on your website which is even against the procedure of the audit service.. I personally think that the AG is very wicked and he knows what he is doing? People are praising him. I dont know what people listen to
This one is peanut.People don't know the millions of dollars Osafo Marfo got paid to so called forensic auditors to Audit so may state agencies but achieved nothing.
It is becoming crystal clear that this audit was one of the usual witch-hunting one targeted at NDC officials but went bad. Little did they know that their own officials were chopping under the tolerant Mahama. AG also went beyond the 2016 limit by exposing their evil deeds in 2017/2018, hence they are heavily bruised. The AG followed the usual laid down procedures. Anyone who feels aggrieved could go to court, period.