DCEs and MCEs urged to supervise finances

Koforidua, Sept. 9, GNA - The Chairman of the Public

Accounts Committee of Parliament, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, has

appealed to District, Municipal and Metropolitan Chief Executives

to supervise the financial administration of their assemblies to

avoid embarrassment.

He said this at the end at the end of a two-day public sitting of

the Public Accounts Committee in Koforidua during which 24

District Assemblies from Greater Accra, Volta and Eastern

regions appeared before the committee to answer financial queries

raised in the Auditor General's Report of the assemblies for the

period January 1st 2001 to December 31st, 2004.

Mr Kan-Dapaah said the committee decided to move from

Accra to the regions to enable the people to see how those who

were entrusted with the finances of government were being made

to account for them.

He called on newly appointed Chief Executives of the

assemblies to be interested in the handing over notes of their

predecessors and cultivate a good relationship with them so that

they could call on them to explain issues that were not clear to

them.

Mr Kan-Dapaah called on the assemblies to read the Auditor

General's report about them and take necessary measures to

recover all debts owned the assemblies.

He called for the establishment of a truly independent

Auditor General so that the report would be respected by all

political parties.