The Controller and Accountant General, Mr. Eugene Ofosuhene has charged MFO’s and DFO’s to take strength from the Public Financial Management Act (Act, 921) which was passed in 2016 in the discharge of their duties.
Speaking to Beach News on the side-lines of the durbar of the Western Regional staff of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) in Sekondi, Mr. Eugene Ofosuhene noted that his office, as the key agency for a sound a prudent management of the state funds calls for vital responsibility on staff of CAGD to be committed and dedicated in the discharge of their duties.
And by that a transparent public financial management system which supports national accountability by disclosing to the public and government, information and the use of public resources at all times which is a critical element of good governance.
The public financial Management Act, (Act 921) which was passed in 2016 he said, is to ensure the safety, custody and integrity of public funds in line with the new global trends in accounting and the need for appropriate law to back it. Emphasizing that it is important that staff of CAGD will be guided by the Act as a source of reference in the all they do as professional gate keepers of the state finances.
“My office will not be in the position to protect anyone of you who works contrary to Act, (Act 921)”.
Outlining the success of the numerous reforms being rolled out in the public finance management sector, Mr. Ofosuhene said that, times have changed and that without validation no one under controller and accountant general in will receive his or her salary.
“Through this validation process, in August we stopped about 9000 names (staffs) who were not validated, we did not pay them. Before then we had met all the unions to inform them that until the do proper validation we will not continue to pay people who we believe are not supposed to be on the pay roll. And in September we pegged another 7000“.
The Controller and Accountant General, Mr. Eugene Ofosuhene who is on a familiarisation tour to the western region in the company of the Deputy Controller and Accountant General in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr. Sampson Asare Finakoh and the Assistant Controller and Accountant General in charge of Administration, Mr. Samuel Duedu, told beachfmonline that his tour is to help him abreast himself with the job in his departments here in the western region and should equally help him to know the challenges confronting his staff as well as their successes.
By: Kojo Ennimil Arthur/Beachfmonline.com/Ghana
