The American Ghanaian lawyer, Professor Kwaku Asare ( popularly known as Kwaku Azar) has taken on the board Chairman of the Audit Service for questioning the authority of the immediate past Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo.
“I was deeply surprised by the Audit Service Board. The Board was totally out of order when it adopted citizenship. It was so wrong,” he said at The Point of View on Wednesday.
His remarks came after Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman, Chairman of the Audit Board, said that Mr. Domelevo was not a Ghanaian but a Togolese prior to his removal from office.
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“Having stated that the person’s mother was a Ghanaian and grandfather was a Ghanaian who migrated to Togo, what were you trying to achieve with the introduction of that other than to antagonize people?” Kwaku Azar has asked.
He said he wanted the President to send a signal and not engage in any citizenship dispute. “The President should have come to say, any of my appointees who try to play the citizenship card will be out of my administration. It is a no-go area. We should never do that again”, he cautioned.
More on the interference of the Audit Board, Prof. Asare said: “It is completely ridiculous when you claim that you have an autonomous Auditor General and that you also have an Audit Board with a plurality of the representatives named by the President to exercise supervision over the independent individual who audits the President. It makes no sense. Nobody is going to make such a deal. The Board is an autonomous audit service and not a part of the Auditor General’s office.
The discussion about Domelevo was simply a ‘constructive dismissal’.
To him, events that have so far unfolded could only be better represented as “constructive dismissal.” According to Kwaku Azar, Daniel Domelevo was driven out of office.
Professor Asare is very confident in the true conduct that led to Mr. Domelevo’s removal from office. He said, “as far as a year ago, I told people this was constructive dismissal and this Auditor General was not going to come back”.
Kwaku Azar further argued “there is going to be an involuntary leave. When it’s time for him to return, something else will come up. Now it is age and citizenship. Even if we were able to scale those two issues, other issues would come up. The matters will keep coming up until everybody gets fed up and the Auditor General just gives up”.
