May 8, 2018

The Public Account Committee of Parliament (PAC) is heading to the Volta Region to consider zone 4 for report which will be last for the regions on the 2015 to 2016 Auditor General’s report.

The Committee would have public hearing to consider the Auditor General’s report for the Volta, Eastern and Greater Accra Regions from Monday the 7th of May 2018.

Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) would appear before the committee pre-tertiary institutions and technical universities from the three regions will also appear before the committee.

Chairman of the PAC, Dr. James Klutse Avedzi had cautioned heads of institutions within the MMDAs, pre-tertiary institutions and the technical universities that from next year they will be surcharged for financial infractions and will have to take the Auditor Generals directives seriously.

The committee ha
d already held public hearing in the three regions in the north, Ashanti, Western and Central Region.

Dr. Avedzi had indicated that the committee will seek audience with the Inspector General of Police, to see how best issues brought before the police for investigation on financial infractions and misappropriation could be fast trucked.

By:  Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com