Public-spirited Auditor-General of the Republic of Ghana Mr. Daniel Domelevo has warned Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo not to make any attempt to refuse to pay back the $1million Kroll Associates ‘dubious’ deal.
Mr. Domelevo said the only grounds upon which Mr. Osafo-Maafo’s can say he will not pay back the money is if he goes to court to get a judgment.
According to the Auditor, the Senior Minister’s reply to his queries over the government contract with Kroll Associates UK to provide consultancy services was not sufficient or convincing.
He revealed that Kroll Associates was illegally chosen through a single-source procurement process.
Kroll Associates, UK Ltd was contracted in 2017 to “review electronic evidence, identify assets abroad and manage a joint Civil and Criminal Assets recovery process” and there is no evidence of the work done.
By September 2018, over $1 million equivalent to ¢ 5.6 million was made to the company as full payment for its services when work was not done. When queried, the Auditor General said Osafo-Maafo gave him “assurance” but not “evidence” but the Audit Service deals with evidence, not assurances.
“We want evidence of work being done” not “assurances”, the Auditor-General insisted.
The letter from the Senior Minister indicated some examples of asset-tracing work done and also refused to reveal others, explaining they are “classified security matters.”
*Source: Mynewsgh.com*
