Financial Irregularities In Assemblies *part Two*
Agona East District Assembly Fingered In ¢51,770.70 Without Any Relevant Documentation
The Agona East District is one of the 260 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana and forms part of the twenty two (22) Metropolitan, Municipalities and Districts in the Central Region. Nsaba is the Administrative capital of the District.
It is bounded to the south by the Agona West Municipality and the Gomoa East District Assembly, to the north by the Birim Central Municipal and to the Northeast by the West Akim Municipal, both in the Eastern Region. The eastern part of the District is bounded by the Awutu Senya West District and to the west by Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District and Ajumako-Enyan Essiam Districts. The population of the District according to 2010 population and housing census stands at 85,920 with 41,035 male and 44,885 female.
According to the auditor general's 2018 report, it has been revealed that, the District has made an unsupported payment of fifty one thousand seven hundred and seventy Ghana cedis seventy pesewas ( Gh¢51,770.70).
Regulation 39 of the financial administration regulation 2014, requires that, a head of department to ensure that transactions are properly authenticated to show that amount are due and payable and order for disbursement that does not meet these requirements is rejected.
Contrary to the above regulation, the management of Agona East District Assembly made a total payment of ¢ 51,770.70 from the People With Disabilities and Fund (PWDF) and District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) But were not supported with relevant expenditure documents such as statement of claim, receipts and invoices to authenticate the transactions.
Poor supervision on the part of the respective finance officer to ensure that these relevant documents were obtained to substantiate the transactions before payment were made accounted for the anomaly payment not properly substantiated could lead to payment for goods not supply and services not rendered to the Assembly.
Following this misused of public funds, the auditor general has recommended the recovery of the amount (¢51,770.70) from the coordinating director and the finance officers of the respective Assembly.
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