President Nana Akufo-Addo has
compulsorily retired embattled Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo,
despite the latter claiming he is not yet 60 years.
A letter signed by Nana Bediatuo
Asante, Executive Secretary to the President on Wednesday, March 3, and
addressed to Daniel Yao Domelevo said:
“The attention of the President
of the Republic has been drawn to records and documents made available to the Office
by the Audit Service, that indicate that your date of birth is 1 June 1960 and
that in accordance with article 199(1) of the Constitution, your date of
retirement as Auditor General was 1 June 2020.
“Based on this information, the
President is of the view that you have formally left office. Mr Johnson
Akuamoa-Asiedu will continue to act as Auditor-General until the President
appoints a substantive Auditor General.
“The president thanks you for
your service to the nation and wishes you the very best in your future
endeavours.”
Daniel Domelevo recently became
a subject of many news discussions after a series of correspondence between
himself and the Audit Service Board came to the fore.
The Board alleged that records
at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) provided by the
Auditor-General indicated that his date of birth was 1960 when he joined the
scheme on October 1, 1978.
Again, the Board insisted that the hometown of Mr. Domelevo
is Agbetofe in Togo, thereby making him non-Ghanaian, even though on October
25, 1993, Domelevo had changed those records.
While the date of birth changed
to June 1, 1961, the hometown of the Auditor-General was now Ada in the Greater
Accra Region, the Board claimed in a three-page letter addressed to Mr.
Domelevo on Tuesday, March 2, just a day before he was to resume work from a
forced 167-day leave.
Daniel Yao Domelevo duly
informed the board that the two allegations were false and offered
explanations.
The Board replied indicating,
“observation of your responses and explanations contained in your above
reference letter make your date of birth and Ghanaian nationality even more
doubtful and clearly establishes that you have made false statements contrary
to law”.
The Board consequently insisted
that Mr. Domelevo was due for compulsory retirement on June 1, 2020, and was in
fact not Ghanaian but Togolese.
“Records made available to the
Board indicate that your date of retirement was 1 June 2020 and as far as the
Audit Service is concerned you are deemed to have retired,” it noted.
Meanwhile, Domelevo returned to
work on Wednesday, March 3.
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