The Minister of Information has stated it is pre-mature for the Minority in Parliament to call for a special audit of the COVID-19 Alleviation Response Programme.
According to him, a special audit cannot be conducted on the fund whilst the various intervention programmes are ongoing.
Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah explained that per Article 187 of the 1992 Constitution, general auditing was supposed to be conducted at the end of the financial year.
“Additionally, Section 16 of the Audit Service Act stipulated that in addition to the general audit, a special audit could be performed by the Auditor-General at the end of a financial year,” he stated.
Mr. Nkrumah stated these during a media briefing in Accra on the Minority’s call for a special audit into the GHS280.3 million spent on supply of free food and water for Ghanaians during the lockdown.
The Information Minister said: “It is becoming increasingly clear that our colleagues in the Minority will always find an opportunity to raise controversy, with the hope to distract us from the COVID-19 Response Programme, but we’ll not be distracted”.
NDC Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, at a news conference on Wednesday called for special audit of the COVID-19 Alleviation Response Programme, which government supplied free food and water to Ghanaians during the partial lockdown.
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