[ 2021-03-11 ]

Nana Addo’s anti-corruption credibility is in tatters – Gyimah-Boadi
The co-founder and Executive Director of
Afrobarometer, Prof. Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has
questioned President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo’s commitment to fighting corruption,
following the forced retirement of immediate-past
Auditor General, Daniel Yao Domelevo.

Mr. Gyimah-Boadi said the recent development
involving Mr. Domelevo only exposes the
President’s lack of credibility in fighting
corruption.

“As for the President’s credibility in terms
of anti-corruption, I am afraid to say it is in
tatters. It has been in tatters for a while but
this puts a nail in the coffin. I see Domelevo as
a victim of well-orchestrated actions by
individuals who are [government] officials and by
state institutions,” he said.

On March 2, a day before Mr. Domelevo was
scheduled to return from his controversial forced
leave, the Audit Service Board questioned his
nationality and age.

The Board claimed Mr. Domelevo should have retired
in 2020 and is Togolese.

The Presidency endorsed the retirement claims of
the Audit Service Board and said it considered Mr.
Domelevo retired.

Mr. Gyimah-Boadi could not fathom why Domelevo had
to suffer such a fate, having demonstrated a keen
commitment to ending corruption.

“Mr. Domelevo was exercising proper
constitutional and legal oversight and officials
and institutions that Mr. Domelevo has sought to
hold to account. The man was doing his best to
protect the public purse to claim surcharges for
improperly spent public funds. One who is trying
to fight corruption is one who is being persecuted
and hounded out of office,” he said in a
soon-to-be-aired interview on The Point of View on
Citi TV.

He believes Mr. Domelevo was forced out of office
because Ghana has a “presidency that is
increasingly looking like it has difficulty
working with [heads of] institutions that it has
not appointed.”

Apart from Mr. Gyimah-Boadi, the Coalition of
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Against
Corruption has taken on President Akufo-Addo over
Domelevo’s forced retirement.

The CSOs say the action is an affront to good
governance and the fight against corruption.

Source - Citinewsroom

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