News:
June 3, 2015
The Deputy Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Atta Akyea has denied claims by Occupy Ghana that Parliament has failed to utilize the Committee’s work on the on Auditor General’s reports.
The pressure group has threatened to sue government if it fails to provide the full report on investigations into the financial malfeasance at GYEEDA and the NYEP, rejecting advice for them to rely on parliament to do so.
But in an interview with Citi News, the Abuakwa South MP insisted the house has retrieved monies running into millions.
“I am very much surprised that anybody should say that Public Accounts Committee has reneged on its responsibilities and we are not bringing into the house issues concerning SADA etc. Let me assure you that when the report are laid by the Auditor General and there are heaps of activities to be attended to you cannot say that because one report has not been attended to, we are shirking our responsibilities.”
Atta Akyea also told Citi News the section of the Auditor General’s report on GYEEDA has not been discussed by the Public Accounts Committee.
“I am even amazed that anybody will say so because at the end of the day, have we discussed GYEEDA and SADA?You should find out whether we have interrogated those issues. If we have interrogated those issues and we didn’t make any recommendation at all then his conclusion will be right but I can assure you that I have been with them for all this while and we have never interrogated GYEEDA and SADA,” he stated.
Occupy Ghana on Monday threatened to sue government if it fails to provide the full report on investigations into the financial malfeasance among other issues, at the National Youth Employment Program (NYEP) and the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) in 14 days.
The group is also asking the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations which has carried out investigations into the operations of the NYEP and GYEEDA to make their findings public.
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