24-05-2011
Narration: In a bid to keep the country’s Audit Service abreast with modern business trends, management and board have resolved to revitalize and re-engineer the service through a number of initiatives born out of the modernization project between the service and the National Audit Office-UK to help achieve its vision of becoming one of the leading supreme Audit Institutions in the world. This is to facilitate their activities in delivering professional, excellent and cost effective auditing services in the country. This was made known by the Director-General Audit Service, Richard Quartey at an interactive durbar held with staff of the service at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. This was his first maiden visit to the region since his assumption of office. Isaac Asare was at the durbar and has the rest of the story for Radio Ghana.
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The Auditor General’s, visit forms part of his 3-day working tour of the three northern regions to familiarize and acquaint himself with staff of the service in the said regions and to have first hand information on issues and problems relating to the execution of their mandate in order to take the needed high level decisions in providing the best solutions to their challenges and also create the right working environment for improved productivity in the Audit Service. He was accompanied by the new board of directors of the service among other top management staff from Accra. The Auditor General and his high profile delegation first paid a courtesy call on the Upper East Regional Minister, Mark Woyongo at his office to inform him about their presence in the region and as well discuss relevant issues relating to their core mandate. Mr. Woyongo in his brief remark commended the service for their enormous contribution in ensuring probity and accountability in both the private and the public sector. Their visit, he noted, will serve as a morale booster to staff in the region since they are saddled with numerous constraints. Mr. Woyongo therefore challenged the leadership of the audit service to step up their effort in keeping offices and department on their toes so that the country’s finances would not be misappropriated by selfish individuals of high places. The Deputy Regional Minister, Mrs. Lucy Awuni also charged management of the service to help train staff of various institutions on modalities of ensuring sanity in their finances. She gave an account of the recent Public Account Committee sitting, which to her, was one of the embarrassing moment in the history of the country’s financial management, to the effect that most financial heads of institutions were seen to be lacking prudent financial management and skills to operate. At a staff durbar, the Auditor General, Mr. Quartey said the service would soon experience total transformation in its service delivery and outlined moves to revitalize the service through modernization initiatives, which includes the Performance Management and Appraisal Framework (PMAF) and the Resource Management System (RMS). These initiatives, he stated, are geared towards the achievement of the service and charged staff to contribute their quota towards its realization since it is an avenue for them to deliver on their mandate. Mr. Quartey also expressed management’s determination to solving the infrastructural challenges of staff in the region and admonished personnel to desist from all corrupt practices as management will deal decisively with anyone found implicated or caught in any act of corruption. The Board Chairman of the Service, Mr. John Chinogo, on his part said the service among other interventions is working towards obtaining a slot in the oil and gas exploration and urged staff to take advantage of that opportunity to ensure accountability at all sectors of the economy. The Acting Regional Auditor, Mr. Sule Saaka was grateful for the visit and expressed the hope that their numerous constraints put before the board would receive the needed attention they deserve. The board later proceeded to Bawku to inspect an abandoned project belonging to the service and also payed a courtesy call on the Bawku Naba, Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka, at his palace. The tour ended with an interaction with the MCE for Bawku, Musa Abdullai, and the executive committee members of the assembly to deliberate on measures to ensure the speedy completion of the abandoned project which has existed for the past 30 years.
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