Samuel Atta Mills, the ranking member of the Public Accounts Committee, has descended heavily on an internal auditor at the Nima Polyclinic.
During the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the Nima Polyclinic’s internal auditor remained unfazed despite committing numerous infractions, including missing records of purported car maintenance payments, revenue losses and other unrecorded expenditures.
Sam Atta Mills accused the internal auditor of failing to provide proper documentation for payments, revenue losses, and other unrecorded expenditures.
He later directed the Director General of the Ghana Health Service to refer the matter to law enforcement agencies.
The MP for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Constituency stated, “Either you get the police involved or EOCO involved, because it doesn’t smell good”.
It does not smell good. And the problem is, it’s an internal audit. I’ve given him 48 hours to provide this information to the auditors. If not, he’s going to…”.
Sam Atta Mills, after seeing the auditor joking with his colleagues and smiling, warned, ”Look, sir, I can wipe that smile off your face right now. You think we are joking here? You pay car maintenance allowance to people, and you don’t have any information on file”.
The Director General, later, assured the Public Accounts Committee that he would personally follow up on the issue and promised to report back in 30 days.
In related PAC news, the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Abena Osei-Asare, has revealed that the committee, with the help of the Auditor-General, has been able to recover over GH¢12.9 billion in misappropriated public funds.
According to Abena Osei-Asare, accountability remains a key priority.
Speaking on Wednesday, October 1, Abena Osei-Asare stated, “One thing I am clear about is that what we are doing is yielding positive results. We have a report we will look at.
Per the work of the Public Accounts Committee, and with the support of the Auditor-General, we have been able to retrieve GH¢12.9 billion. There is a whole report on that which we will be sharing with the public at the right time,” she said.
PAC in the last weeks have been engaging officials from various ministries, departments, and agencies to address infractions captured in the Auditor-General’s Report of 2024.
The Committee is expected to resume its next sittings on October 27, 2025
Also, the management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital has been exposed for validating and paying a dead man for 26 months.
Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in Accra on Monday, September 29, the Tamale Teaching Hospital management was fingered for validating and paying a dead man for 26 months.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament has quizzed the management of Tamale Teaching Hospital over some financial irregularities at the hospital.
Ranking Member Samuel Atta-Mills of PAC quizzed the Tamale Teaching Hospital management on whether they had not attended the deceased staff member’s funeral.
Speaking at the Public Accounts Committee hearing, Samuel Atta-Mills quizzed, “Habib Napare – date of separation was 2022. This guy had died. Didn’t you go to the funeral? And you validated this dead person for 26 months? And now you are coming to tell Parliament to do what?” Atta-Mills asked sharply”.
A management member reacting to the question from the committee revealed they had so far recovered GHS303,558.68 of the total amount.
He revealed that the Hospital had submitted the names of the individuals implicated in the act to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) for recovery.
The management member stated, “We have recovered GHS303,558.68. We have followed a total list to EOCO to help us. EOCO has written back demanding their respective files of the person involved. We have submitted that.
Watch the video below:
“I can wipe that smile off your face right now. You think we’re joking here?……….Director General, get the police or EOCO involved”
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