{"id":700593,"date":"2019-09-07T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/07\/afag-gives-ag-ultimatum-to-probe-auditor-generals-gh%c2%a276m-cars\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:30:20","slug":"afag-gives-ag-ultimatum-to-probe-auditor-generals-gh%c2%a276m-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/07\/afag-gives-ag-ultimatum-to-probe-auditor-generals-gh%c2%a276m-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"AFAG Gives AG Ultimatum To Probe Auditor General\u2019s GH\u00a276m Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Daniel Yao Domelevo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pressure group, Alliance For Accountable Governance (AFAG), has called on the Attorney General to commence investigations into some alleged procurement breaches by the Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo, in the purchase of some Toyota vehicles for the Audit Service.<\/p>\n<p>A statement<br \/>\nissued by the leadership of the group expressed surprise that the Attorney General<br \/>\nhas not commenced criminal investigations into the purchase of the vehicles as<br \/>\nrecommended by the Board of the Public Procurement Authority, as well as all<br \/>\nprocurements made by the Audit Service between January and August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to<br \/>\nAFAG, the PPA report found \u201cflagrant breaches of the Public Procurement Act,<br \/>\n2003 (Act 663) as amended by the Public Procurement (Amendment) Act, 2016 (Act<br \/>\n914) committed by him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group is,<br \/>\ntherefore, calling on the Attorney General to, within one week, commence criminal<br \/>\ninvestigations into the procurement breaches of the Auditor General.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vehicle Purchase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the PPA conducted<br \/>\ninvestigation into the purchase of some 32 vehicles for the Audit Service,<br \/>\nwhich was reportedly done without recourse to the procurement regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ninvestigations also considered the procurement of goods and services by the<br \/>\nAudit Service between January and August, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ninvestigations revealed that the purchase of the vehicles was not done in<br \/>\naccordance with the Public Procurement Act.<\/p>\n<p>In September last<br \/>\nyear, it emerged that the Audit Service used part of its 2017 budgetary<br \/>\nallocations, as well as funds from the United States Agency, for International<br \/>\nDevelopment (USAID) to purchase a number of vehicles for the Service.<\/p>\n<p>The information<br \/>\nindicated that the Service spent a whopping GH\u20b57.6 million in<br \/>\npurchasing a number vehicles for the Audit Service without going through the<br \/>\nright public procurement processes.<\/p>\n<p>Although the<br \/>\npurchases of the vehicles went to the Procurement Authority, the expenses were<br \/>\ndone well above the mandatory threshold of the Auditor-General, his deputy, as<br \/>\nwell as the Entity Tender Committee (ETC) of the Audit Service in contravention<br \/>\nof the law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Damage Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Service<br \/>\nclaims it had received concurrent approval from the PPA to purchase the<br \/>\nvehicles as the amounts involved were above the approval limits of the Auditor General<br \/>\nand the Entity Tender Committee of the Audit Service.<\/p>\n<p>A statement<br \/>\nissued by the Public Relations Unit of the Audit Service at the time had put<br \/>\nthe number of vehicles purchased at 32, all the cost of GH\u20b56,870,511.65.<\/p>\n<p>But documents<br \/>\navailable clearly showed that the Entity Tender Committee of the Audit Service<br \/>\nspearheaded the approval of funds for the purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Information had also<br \/>\nindicated that the Service purchased vehicles from a USAID fund, putting the<br \/>\namount involved well above seven GH\u00a27 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PPA Investigations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PPA<br \/>\nsubsequently launched an investigation into the purchase of the vehicles and<br \/>\nother procurement made by the Service.<\/p>\n<p>The PPA found<br \/>\nthat there were \u2018infractions\u2019 in the methods used by the Audit Service in<br \/>\npurchasing the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>According to the<br \/>\nPPA report, there is no properly established Entity Tender Committee at the<br \/>\nAudit Service as the committee was not set up in accordance with Schedule 1B of<br \/>\nAct 663 which establishes the Service.<\/p>\n<p>The PPA report<br \/>\nalso held that all procurements approved by the Audit Service Entity Committee<br \/>\nare declared \u2018null and void\u2019 as the composition of the committee did not meet<br \/>\nthe requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly,<br \/>\nthe PPA investigations also revealed that in respect of the vehicles purchased<br \/>\nby the Audit Service, the contract was awarded and the<br \/>\nvehicles were delivered before the Audit Service wrote to the Central Tender<br \/>\nReview Committee for concurrent approval contrary to Section 20 (4) of Act 663<br \/>\nas amended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFAG Demand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been almost nine months since the PPA Board referred the report to the Office of the Attorney General for action, but nothing appears to have been done about it and AFAG is calling on the PPA to make the report public while it also indicated that it would \u201cwould present a petition to the President concerning these breaches and failure of the Attorney General to faithfully execute her duties.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Yao Domelevo Pressure group, Alliance For Accountable Governance (AFAG), has called on the Attorney General to commence investigations into some alleged procurement breaches by the Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo, in the purchase of some Toyota 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