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Friday, March 11, 2016 |
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President Mills directs all Chief Executives to establish
functional Audit Report mechanism by December 2009
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
The President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills has directed all
Chief Executives in the public sector to work with the Internal
Audit Agency (IAA) to establish functional Audit Report
Implementation Committees by the end of December 2009.
He added that the Chief Executives must ensure that all the
outstanding internal and external audit recommendations are
cleared by December, this year.
President Mills gave the directives in a speech read for him by
the a Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Seth
Tekpeh at the opening of the 4th annual Internal Audit Forum in
Accra, yesterday.
The two-day forum, which is under the Theme: Public Sector
Performance Management-The Role of the Internal Auditing”, was
attended by auditors, accountants and some Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Executives across the country.
President Mills charged the Public Services Commission, the
Office of the Head of the Civil Service and the Ministry of
Local Government and Rural Development to work together to
ensure an effective performance management system in all the
Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to ensure that
national programme objectives are achieved with utmost
efficiency.
He charged that “I expect periodic reports from the Public
Services Commission, the Office of the Head of the Civil Service
and ministries on the performance of the Chief Directors, Chief
Executives and other heads of the MDAs and MMDAs”.
With the increasing pressure on government to improve quality of
services while reducing costs, public servants must be more
accountable, customer-focused and sensitive to stakeholders’
values, President Mills challenged.
According to him, this would enhance the services they provide
to taxpayers-who pay for public services, including their pay
packets.
To achieve this goal, he asked heads of the various public
institutions to sign performance pacts with their respective
institutions.
This he emphasized was a serious program that enjoins parent
ministries and institutions such as the State Enterprises
Commission (SEC) to eliminate the practice of “softening the
ground” through setting performance targets that are easy to
measure and accomplish.
The Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency, Mr. Patrick
Nomo disclosed that in the five years of the agency’s work, some
systemic weaknesses have run through the findings in respect of
MDAs and MMDAs reported in the Agency’s Annual Reports to the
President.
These systemic weaknesses, he mentioned included: inadequate
records management, misuse of Internally Generated Funds (IGFs),
inadequate financial accounting and reporting and
non-preparation of Bank reconciliation statements.
The Agency believes that the root cause of these weaknesses is
traceable to the absence of effective performance management
systems in MDAs and MMDAs.
Mr. Nomo observed that this situation had resulted in under
performance of a number of MDAs and MMDAs and led to
non-achievement of organizational and national objectives.
Touching on the significance of the forum, the Chairman of the
Public Services Commission Prof. S.N Woode who chaired the
function, appealed to internal auditors to management public
resources for the benefit of the people.
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Ghana becomes hub for Gold Fields
growth in West Africa
Accra, Aug 17, Ghanadot - Gold Fields Ltd, the world’s
fourth and Africa’s number two leading producer of Gold, has
announced the elevation of its operations in Ghana as the
hub for the growth of its (Gold fields’) business in the
West Africa Region..
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We are ready for Akwatia
elections tomorrow-EC
Accra, Aug 17, Ghanadot - The Electoral Commission
(EC) has disclosed that all is set for the Akwatia election
re-run slated for Tuesday, August 18...More |
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Government imposes curfew on Akwatia
Accra, Aug 17, Ghanadot
- The Minister for the Interior, Cletus Avoka, has
imposed a curfew on the town of Akwatia. This follows
violent clashes on Sunday between supporters of the ruling
National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party.
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Are we seeing a better Ghana now?
Commentary, Aug 17, Ghanadot - If the above question were
asked today, I would have to say not yet. A better Ghana was
President Mills’ promise. But judging by what is going on at
Akwatia now that political promise is way off track....More |
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