Domelevo Tears Into Audit Board’s Preposterous Handing Over Request

The former Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo has slammed the Audit Service Board for making a “preposterous” request to him by asking him to submit a “comprehensive” handing-over notes which he had handed over more than eight months ago when he was contentiously yanked off his position as the Auditor-General.

In what has been viewed by many Ghanaians as the continuation of the undue witch-hunting of the no-nonsense anti-corruption campaigner-Domelevo, the Audit Service Board headed by Professor Edward Dua Agyeman, a man described as highly corrupt, on March 16, wrote officially to Domelevo submit his handing-over notes.

In the letter, Domelevo was asked to “prepare a comprehensive handing over of the Audit Service to Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu.” But in a quick dismissal the following day (March 17, 2021) Domelevo wondered what handing-over notes Prof. Dua Agyeman was talking about. 

According to the former Auditor-General, when he was forcefully hounded out on June 30, 2020 by President Akufo Addo in the guise of asking him a 167-day accumulated annual leave, he was asked to prepare comprehensive handing-over notes, he did and handed them over to Mr. Akuamoah Asiedu”

“Paragraph 2 of the letter from the Office of the President dated 29th June 2020 requested that I “hand over all matters relating to the Office of the Auditor-General to Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu” who has been in charge since 1st July 2020″, part of the letter explained

He further jabbed the clueless Prof. Dua Agyeman by mocking him [Dua Agyeman] to ask Akuamoah Asiedu to hand over the handing-over notes to him [Domelevo] only so he can hand it back immediately to Akuamoah Asiedu.

Earlier in 2020, President Akufo Addo forced Domelevo to take a 167-day mandatory leave apparently because he had surcharged Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo over Maafo’s dubious payment of US$1million dollars to a UK company for no work done.

In what was clearly a pre-conceived plan, the exact day, Domelevo returned from his unprecedented leave, President Akufo Addo immediately wrote to the anti-corruption fighter to proceed on retirement, even though he [Domelevo] had not even hit the mandatory 60 years which serves as the cut-off age for public servants to retire. 

Domevelo was 59 years old when an impatient Akufo Addo forcefully pushed him to retire.

 The same Audi Service Board Chairman Prof. Dua Agyeman, who orchestrated Domelevo’s 167-day leave was the same person who wrote claiming that he had done his checks and concluded that Domelevo was 60 years old, despite facts to the contrary.

Despite all caution about the blunder of the claims made by Prof. Dua Agyeman against Domelevo, President Akufo Addo went ahead to order the embattled Auditor-General into retirement at 59 years of age.

The Audit Service Board also claimed Domelevo was a Togolese.

Many were hoping that for once, President Akufo-Addo whose administration is seen as the most corrupt in the country’s history deflect the urge to witch-hunt Domelevo and cure some of the perceptions that he was directly helping a corrupt Audit Service Board to hound out Domelevo who has countered many of the reported corrupt deals at the Audit Service.