News:
August 20, 2013
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Ghartey is advocating for a separate committee to see to the implementation of recommendations of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
Mr. Ghartey made this proposal at the Committee’s sitting on Monday.
“Should Parliament appoint a separate committee to look at the implementation of the report of the Public Accounts Committee; I think that this committee should have a sub-committee which will look at the implementation…’’
On his part,Chairman of the PAC, Kwaku Agyeman Manu said a sub-committee within the PAC will be set up to see to the implementation of the committee’s recommendations.
According to him, the agencies that are supposed to implement the committee’s recommendations have failed to. “’The actual implementations of the committee’s recommendations are not supposed to be done by the committee [PAC] or even by Parliament at large.’’
‘’We are suggesting the set- up of a sub-committee within this group that will do follow up of our recommendations; that committee will be working closely with the auditor general,’’ Mr. Manu suggested.
Article 187 (6) of the Constitution requires that a committee be set up by parliament to deal with any matters arising from the Auditor General’s report.
Meanwhile, President John Mahama has already directed the Attorney General to set up a committee to investigate the latest Auditor General’s report before the commencement of PAC’s sitting.
In a related development Mr. Joe Ghartey also called on members of the PAC to be polite to people who appear before them.