{"id":395654,"date":"2017-06-14T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/14\/supreme-court-orders-a-g-to-surcharge-public-officers\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:01:18","slug":"supreme-court-orders-a-g-to-surcharge-public-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/14\/supreme-court-orders-a-g-to-surcharge-public-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court orders A-G to surcharge public officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n              <\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court Wednesday morning granted all the reliefs sought by pressure group, OccupyGhana, in respect of the Auditor-General&#8217;s powers of disallowance and surcharges.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12.8px\">According to the Court, the Auditor-General must issue disallowance and surcharges in respect of all state monies found to have been expended contrary to law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second relief granted by the Court is that the Auditor-General must take steps to recover all amounts lost to the state, and this covers private persons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney-General has also been ordered to\u00a0ensure enforcement of the orders including criminal prosecution where necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OccupyGhana has been waging war against the lethargic attitude of Auditors-General whom it accused of not applying the law and protecting the public purse.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the Auditor-General makes serious findings of many instances of misapplication of colossal amounts by public office holders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the public officers\u00a0make\u00a0admissions before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament but none is ever held accountable or punished.<\/p>\n<p>OccupyGhana has argued strenuously that the Auditor-General has\u00a0the power to disallow expenditures which are not in conformity with the law and to surcharge those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The dithering the Auditor-General compelled the pressure to head to the highest court of the land for specific orders regarding the powers of the Auditor-General to disallow expenditures and surcharge officers found to have engaged in financial impropriety.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The court Wednesday\u00a0granted all the reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>It further ordered the Attorney-General to take steps to prosecute persons found to have misapplied public funds.<\/p>\n<p>More soon&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Wednesday morning granted all the reliefs sought by pressure group, OccupyGhana, in respect of the Auditor-General&#8217;s powers of disallowance and surcharges. 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