A Lawyer, Professor Kwaku Asare, claims that the resignation of the Auditor General, Daniel Yao, shows that the government had been planning his removal from office.
Prof Asare, speaking on The Point of View, said the recent dispute over Mr. Domelevo’s birth date and nationality is unsurprising.
“As far back as a year ago, I told people this is constructive dismissal and this Auditor General is not going to come back. There is going to be an involuntary leave and when it is time for him to come back, something else will come up.”
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“Even if we are able to scale these two issues, another issue will come out. “If he stole some plantain at school or did something else.”
“The matters would keep coming up until everybody gets fed up and the Auditor General just gives up,” Prof. Asare said.
The Audit Service Board challenged his nationality and age on March 2, a day before Mr. Domelevo was due to return from his controversial forced leave. Mr. Domelevo, who is Togolese, should have retired in 2020, according to the Board. The Audit Service Board based their statements on certain documents provided to them by the Auditor General. According to his date of birth, he was born June 1, 1960 and not June 1 1961.
Mr. Domelevo said that the allegations were not true.
The President approved the audit board’s statements of retirement and indicated that they found Mr. Domelevo retired. The Presidency thanked him for his service in a letter and stated that a permanent replacement would be announced shortly. “The President is of the view that you [Domelevo] have formally left office,” the letter from the presidency said in response to the date of birth concerns.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Auditor General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, will continue to serve as a temporary auditor general until an acting auditor general is hired.
Mr. Domelevo was considered one of Ghana’s most effective Auditor-Generals because of his willingness to share insights with the public, and his dedication to fighting corruption.
He was known for using Article 187 (7) of Ghana’s constitution which allowed him to disallow illegal taxes and surcharge offenders following a 2017 Supreme Court decision.
