{"id":174747,"date":"2024-04-24T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/24\/transparency-needed-in-assets-declaration-osafo-maafo\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:36:10","slug":"transparency-needed-in-assets-declaration-osafo-maafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/24\/transparency-needed-in-assets-declaration-osafo-maafo\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency Needed In Assets Declaration &#8211; Osafo Maafo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Yaw Osafo-Maafo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senior Presidential Advisor, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has stated that transparency is needed in the declaration of assets owned by public officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the current asset declaration regime remains opaque, with declared assets kept confidential between the Auditor-General and the asserter.<\/p>\n<p>During a forum on open government partnerships and transparency in Accra, Mr. Osafo-Maafo denounced the Public Office Holders Declaration of Assets and Disqualification Act 1998 (Act 550), stating that he had never liked it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Ghana, when you become a Minister of State or a public sector worker at certain levels, the first thing you do is to declare your assets and file the same to the Auditor-General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I personally don\u2019t like about this law is that after you declare your assets, everything is kept confidential between the Auditor-General and yourself, and therefore, it becomes difficult for anybody to challenge the authenticity of the declaration,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the underpinning cultural and societal norms surrounding inheritance, which he claimed, caused individuals to resist transparency during the formulation of Act 550.<\/p>\n<p>Osafo-Maafo stated that while he supports asset declaration, there should be some amount of transparency in the arrangement so that the public may access it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI happened to be consulting for somebody when we were drawing up the constitution of the Republic, and I was championing the publication of the assets declared and the chiefs were so furious with me and said they would be killed when people knew what they had,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Osafo-Maafo said the time is ripe for assets declared by public officials to be made public as the opaque regime is not helping accountability and open governance.<\/p>\n<p>Article 286 (1) of the 1992 Con\u00adstitution states that: \u201cA person who holds a public office mentioned in clause (5) of this Article shall submit to the Auditor-General a written declaration of all property or assets owned by or liabilities owed by him, whether directly or indirectly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Ernest Kofi Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaw Osafo-Maafo \u00a0 Senior Presidential Advisor, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has stated that transparency is needed in the declaration of assets owned by public officials. 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