President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has relieved off the position of Mr Daniel Domelevo as Auditor General, directing him to retire from active service.
The President has since selected Johnson Akuamoa-Asiedu to go about as the country’s Auditor General till a substantive Auditor General is appointed.
The president’s directive comes on the back of the brouhaha that ensued between the public authority of the Audit Service Board and the Auditor General.
The board director of the Audit Service, Prof Edward Dua, in a 26 February 2021 letter to Domelevo said the now former Auditor General was not Ghanaian and was likewise over the retirement age per his records at SSNIT.
“Records at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) completed and signed by you demonstrate your date of birth as first June 1960 when you joined the plan on first October 1978. The records show that you expressed your clan as Togolese and a non-Ghanaian. That your old neighborhood is Agbatofe,”
“On 25th October 1992, you finished and marked a SSNIT Change of Beneficiary Nomination structure, expressing your ethnicity as a Ghanaian and your old neighborhood as Ada in the Greater Accra Region. The date of birth on your Ghanaian visa number A45800, gave on 28th February 1996 is first June 1961. That spot of birth is expressed as Kumasi, Ashanti Region.”
Accordingly, the troubled Auditor General denied those cases.
“Either my dad wrongly referenced Agbatofe in Togo as his old neighborhood to me, or I misinterpreted it at that point… My mom is likewise a Ghanaian,” Domelevo answered in a letter dated 27 February 2021.
On his date of birth, Domelevo said he saw that the 1960 date of birth was a slip-up “when I checked my data in the baptismal register of the Catholic Church in Adeemmra