Daniel Yaw Domelevo, the former Auditor-General, claims that after being unconstitutionally dismissed from office in 2020, he has not yet received all of his retirement benefits.
The president compelled Mr. Domelevo to take a 169-day leave of absence in 2020. According to the presidency, these were accumulated vacation days that Mr. Domelevo had not used.
However, the president’s move was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court on May 31.
Yaw Domelevo responded by saying he is keenly watching the payment of his retirement compensation.
“I have not received all of my benefits yet. What I saw last week Friday was a letter from the Ministry of Finance stating that they were paying me a differential gratuity and that the money had been deposited into my account. I asked, how can you pay me the differential when I have not seen the original amount?” Mr. Domelevo told Citinewsroom.
The verdict was unnecessarily delayed, which establishes a very dangerous precedent for bad things to fester, according to Professor Ransford Gyampo, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, who was speaking on the same topic.
“It is a great precedent that they are setting, but in trying to set a good precedent, they do not have to allow bad governance to fester before they set a good precedent. What the president did was illegal, but now Domelevo cannot return to serve as Auditor-General. So is it deliberate that you allow bad governance to fester for all this time and wait until you give a ruling and Domelevo cannot return to serve as Auditor-General?”
“Some of these things should be handled expeditiously to ensure that bad things are not allowed to fester in our body politic, and I was thinking that the Supreme Court would have seen the urgency in expeditiously adjudicating this matter”, Professor Gyampo added.
