Martin Amidu: Special Prosecutor cautions politicians against intimidating the Auditor-General
- Martin Amidu has advised public officials to desist from intimidating the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo over his audit reports
- Martin Amidu said they should stop attacking the Auditor-General over his professional work
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The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has advised public officials to desist from intimidating the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo over his audit reports.
Martin Amidu said they should stop attacking the Auditor-General over his professional work.
Speaking in an interview on Citi FM, Martin Amidu stated that political parties should stop intimidating heads of anti-corruption agencies in the country but rather allow them to do their professional work.
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"The political divide is both fighting anti-corruption agencies when they are doing their professional work you tag it with some political things, you can't fight corruption by politicising it, and the two political parties will stop and allow the head of anti-corruption agencies to do their work professionally with their staff," he said.
Amidu said the intimidation from government officials would not allow the Auditor General perform his duty as he would be very careful while selecting institutions for auditing of state institutions.
"For instance, Audit Service there is a provision for surcharge if the Auditor General through the report of his staff can not disagree with them and therefore supports their conclusion and surcharges you, the law provides an avenue you can challenge it why personalized politicizing it to the Auditor General, that's intimidation and makes him incapable of performing the anti-corruption duty...," he said.
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In other news, the Dean of the School of Business at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. John Gatsi has clarified claims that he was not qualified to receive government support for an academic scholarship.
According to him, he applied for the scholarship when he had difficulty in completing some educational expenses in 2014.
In an interview with Citi News he noted that he was single-handedly paying his fees until in 2014 when he applied and was supported with only €4,000.
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