Africa-Press – Ghana. Mr James Klutse Avedzi, Chairman, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has expressed worry about how public institutions delay in responding to requests made by other institutions to help them do their work.
Mr Avedzi, who is also the Deputy Minority Leader, has therefore urged institutions to ensure that they worked by the Public Procurement Laws and the Financial Management Acts to avoid violating the laws that could result in sanctions.
Mr Avedzi said this at the ongoing PAC’s sitting in Tamale to consider the 2019 Auditor General’s Report on Pre-Universities in the Northern, Northeast, Upper East, Upper West and the Savana Regions. The six-day sitting would consider infractions cited by the Auditor General in its 2019 Reports.
The 2019 report cited eight Pre-Universities and two Polytechnics for irregularities related to outstanding loans, and staff debtors, cash irregularities misapplication of funds, non-retirement of imprest, unapproved expenditures, and non-payment of internally generated funds into the Consolidated Fund and payroll irregularities, among others.
Institutions that had so far appeared before the Committee included the Tamale Technical University in the Northern Region, Bolgatanga Polytechnic in the Upper East and Wa Polytechnic in the Upper West
The PAC would also interrogate the Report of the Auditor General on the Management and Utilisation of District Assemblies’ Common Fund and Other Statutory Funds For the year ended, 31st December 2019.
Source: www.gna.org.gh
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