As government seeks to build a “Ghana Beyond Aid”, a quantum sum of GH¢297,585.36 cash is missing at the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly (KKMA).
The Audit Service has recommended that three top officials of the Assembly cough out the money.
The three Assembly officials indicted by the Audit Service are Solomon Tetteh Appiah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Michael Owusu-Amoako, the Municipal Coordinating Director (MCD), and Bright Ametepe, the Municipal Finance Officer (MFO).
According to the 2017 Audit Service Report signed by Gloria Owusu-Afram, the Tema District Auditor, and released on March 26, 2018, weak internal controls and non-supervision over the revenue collections on the part of the Internal Auditors and MFO accounted for the lapse in the financial misappropriation.
Parts of the detailed findings of the Audit Report revealed that 11 payment vouchers with a total value of GH? 40,201 were not properly acquitted with receipts or other financial details.
The anomaly, the page nine of the Report said, was as a result of failure on the part of the head of accounts to ensure that the expenditure details were provided.
What was more, it said the absence of financial details such as receipts, reports, memo or minutes, cast doubts on the genuineness of the expenditure.
The Audit Service said the KKMA had failed to show evidence of GH? 25,200 for the performance of communal labour in the various electoral areas.
According to the KKMA, the work done was certified by the Environment Health Unit before payments were made and that all payments had been regularised and were available for the Audit Service’s verification.
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