The Audit Service Board has asked immediate-past Auditor General, Daniel Domelevo to produce a comprehensive handing over notes to be given to Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, the acting Auditor General.
In a letter signed by the Board Chairman, Professor Dua Agyeman, Domelevo was asked to produce the report within two weeks.
“We refer to the letter ref. OPS 101/1/21/221 dated 3rd March, 2021 from the Office of the President regarding your retirement (copy attached) and request you to prepare a comprehensive handing over of the Audit Service to Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu who has been asked to continue to act as Auditor-General until the President appoints a substantive Auditor-General. We will be grateful if you could complete the exercise within two weeks of receipt of this letter,” the letter read.
But Domelevo, whose exit from office was characterized by serious controversy described the request as ‘preposterous.’
In a response to the Board of the Audit Service, Domelevo noted that in June 2020, he handed over his duties to the Deputy Auditor-General, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu.
“I prepared a handing-over note and handed over to the Acting Auditor-General on 30th June 2020 and he has been in charge for over 8 months.”
“When I resumed work on the 3rd of March 2021, Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu did not hand over to me with the excuse that the handing-over note was not ready,” Mr. Domelevo explained.
This notwithstanding, the former Auditor General said he was open to presenting handover notes if possible.
“If you so wish, please direct the Acting Auditor-General to hand over to me and I will thereafter hand over to him,” Mr. Domelevo said to Professor Dua Agyeman, the Audit Service Board Chairman.
Mr. Domelevo courted controversy in the past year, starting in July 2020, when he was forced on leave for 167 days ahead of the general election.
On March 2, 2021, a day before Mr. Domelevo was scheduled to return from his leave, the Audit Service Board questioned his nationality and age.
The board claimed Mr. Domelevo should have retired in 2020 and was also Togolese.
The Audit Service Board, based its claims on records at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust provided by the Auditor General.
His date of birth was said to be June 1, 1960, instead of June 1, 1961.
Though Mr. Domelevo refuted these claims in further correspondence, the Presidency endorsed the retirement age claims of the Audit Service Board and said it considered the former Auditor General as retired.
He seemingly accepted his fate and held a thanksgiving ceremony to climax his retirement on March 10.
