Two Finance Officers were yesterday, January 20, 2020 arrested, handcuffed and detained at Parliament police station for attempting to deceive the Public Accounts Committee.
The two, Isaac Akowuah and James Essilfie have been accused of trying to deceive the Public Accounts Committee by submitting payment vouchers that did not march what was captured by the Auditor-General in his report.
BestNewsGH.com can report that during the hearing, the Chairman of the Committee, James Avedzi took offence when he realized the finance officers were deliberately attempting to keep the payment vouchers from the committee and found them in contempt of the committee.
Mr Avedzi further opined that most of the payment vouchers that were eventually submitted to the Committee did not tally with the current receipts, while varied reasons were stated for spending, after checks were made.
Attempts by the two finance officer to explain the anomalies in the vouchers yielded not results as Mr. Avedzi ordered that they be taken away into police custody for interrogation.
The Committee on Monday January 13, began working on the Auditor-General’s 2016 report with some representatives from Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Greater Accra, Western and Volta Regions already appearing to defend their spending.
While eight Assemblies were ordered to appear before the committee or face possible sanctions, officials from the Weija-Gbawe Municipal Assembly were sacked because they failed to appear with their Municipal Chief Executive.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
