“Mother Serpent” Bites Anti-corruption Domelevo Into Retirement –SSNIT Expose Prez. Akufo Addo

Records intercepted by Whatsup News from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust show that for the first time in global governance, President Akufo Addo indeed forced the anti-corruption campaigners cum Auditor General Daniel Domelevo into retirement even though he has not attained mandatory retirement age.

Intercepted records show that Mr. Domelevo’s SSNIT social security number is E106106010014. According to experts, this number demonstrates conclusively that Mr. Domelevo is only 59 years old and should not have been personally hounded out into retirement by President Akufo Addo.

According to the experts whose identity Whatsup News has no right to disclose, SSNIT numbers are not randomly generated but are tied to a person’s date of birth to make for easy calculation of pension and gratuity. 

The set of figures “E10” is generic, but the number that follows immediately after the generic first three figures is the year of birth of the SSNIT member. In this case, SSNIT captures Mr. Domelevo’s date of birth as 1961, hence the “61” that immediately follows. 

After the year of birth comes the month of birth the “06” that follows (in this case June 1960) and the day of birth is 1st June 1960, hence the “01” that comes immediately after the month of birth.

Luckily for most Akan and Ewe traditional naming systems, children are named according to the exact day in the week that they were born. In this case, June 1, 1961, falls on a Thursday and incidentally, Mr. Domelevo’s traditional name is Yao depicting a Thursday born. 

He therefore could not have been born on June 1, 1960, because that day falls on a Wednesday which means he should have been bearing the name “Kwaku” or “Koku”.

In a letter signed by Nana Asante Bediatuo Wednesday, the Secretary to the President claims Mr Domelevo’s date of birth was June 1, 1960, despite official records to the contrary.

“The attention of the President of the Republic has been drawn to records and documents made available to this Office by the Audit Service, that indicate that your date of birth is 1st June 1960 and that in accordance with article 199 (1) of the Constitution, your date of retirement as Auditor-General was 1st June 2020,” the March 3 communiqué read.

However, what appears to be an innocuous concern shown by President Akufo Addo has fed into a pattern that exposes the President’s aversion for uncompromising officials dedicated to fighting corruption in public office as Mr. Domelevo had demonstrated.

Indeed, a couple of years ago, Mr. Domelevo put its succinctly that in the current Akufo Addo administration, “…When you fight corruption, corruption will fight you back”.

Evidently, Yao Domelevo was hounded out by the alleged corrupt Board Chairman of the Audit Service, Professor Edward Dua-Agyemang.

Dua-Agyeman had written to inform Domelevo that he was not welcome from his forced 167-day to annual leave because he [ Domelevo] is supposed to have retired since 2020.

Domelevo, who has dismissed the letter of the Board, was on a ‘by-force’ leave that President Akufo-Addo had forced him to take in what cleared the coast for former Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, to get way with the dubious payment of US$1million to a UK company for no work done.

But after Domelevo had written back to Dua Agyemang informing him that he had no authority to ask him to retire, he returned to his office on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, to resume work, only for President Akufo Addo to slap him with the forced retirement letter.

The basis of the Audit Service Board’s announcement to the Auditor General that he has been a retiree since June 2020 was a supposed discovery at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust that Mr. Domelevo had forged his age and nationality.

According to Edward Dua Agyemang, he dug up on Domelevo and found out that the man had been born in 1960 and not 1961 as he has on his employment files. Consequently, he clocked the mandatory retirement age of 60 in June 2020 instead of June 2021 that he is officially expected to retire.

Dua Agyemang also wrote that he had discovered that the AG’s hometown is originally Agbetofe in Togo, and not Ada in Ghana, effectively branding him as a citizenship fraudster.

Domelevo and Dua Agyemang have not seen eye to eye in the Audit Service because Dua Agyemang is said to be the source of corruption at the state auditing department. 

In 2018, Mr. Domelevo reported him to the President over his leak of audit findings to some affected companies and individuals.

He has also been reported for altering audit reports even though he is not the Auditor General.

But what seemed to have steered Domelevo into a collision course with the Akufo Addo administration was his confrontation of former Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo over the dubious payment of US$1million to UK Company, Kroll and Associates for no work done.

After Osafo Maafo failed to provide satisfactory answers for paying the questionable sums to Kroll and Associates, Domelevo, surcharged, incurring the wrath of the Jubilee House.

Domelevo’s confrontation of Osafo Maafo was therefore deemed as an act of war. At the behest of Dua Agyemang, President Akufo-Addo forced Domelevo into a 167-day mandatory leave even though the man did not care for his leave.

This cleared the way for the government to clear Osafo Maafo of the surcharge by Domelevo.

Meanwhile, the embattled Domelevo appears to be unfazed by the marching order given him, as he posted a famous Christian hymn on his social media page.

The lyrics from Martin Rinkart’s 1636 famous hymn is an expression of joy rather than sorrow.

Meanwhile, Domelevo had earlier hinted that he had always had the premonition that he will be hunted out of the Auditor-General’s office and has said he has already prepared himself to go into full-scale farming if that eventually happens.