It has emerged that the door lock to the office of the Auditor General Daniel Yaw Domelevo was changed to prevent him from picking documents from the office without the consent of the Acting Auditor General.
Mr Daniel Domelevo who is currently under a mandatory leave at the order of the President Nana Akufo-Addo visited his office only to discover that the keys he had always used to open and lock his office could no longer be inserted into the door lock, the lock had been changed.
Meanwhile it has been revealed by the Board Chairman for the Audit Service Prof. Edward Dua Agyeman that the lock was changed at the behest of the board.
According to him, the Auditor General returned to the office a day after he had started servicing his leave to pick letterheads and other relevant documents to write a reply letter to the President. This he added was done without the notice of the Acting Auditor General.
“The Acting Auditor General informed us that he wasn’t happy about the security of that office and therefore suggesting that we secure the place. The board authorized him to buy new locks and secure the place,” Prof. Dua Agyeman told newsmen.
He explained that the keys to the new lock were given to the secretary to Mr Domelevo, but she declined taking the keys. The keys were therefore handed over to the cashier.
“My information is that he (Domelevo) was very furious and that we had locked the place and given the keys to the cashier and that he wasn’t going for it. Then he went straight to Joy fm and then the other fm stations to report it,” he added.
The recent development, has sparked a new wave of reactions that greeted the President’s decision to order the Auditor General to proceed on leave.
Anti-corruption campaigner Vitus Azeem has said the development smacks of an attempt by the authorities to conceal some conduct at the department.
