President Akufo-Addo has indicated that Daniel Yaw Domelevo earned his appointment as Auditor-General in 2016 “to pursue a particular agenda”.
Outlining the events that led to Mr Domelevo’s appointment and retirement, the president, in a 21-page letter to the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations Against Corruption on Friday, 19 March 2021, noted that “…The former President had consulted the Council of State on appointing Dr Felix Kwame Aveh as Auditor-General. It is also clear that the consultation process was done before the December 7, 2016, elections”.
“Mr Domelevo was not the intended Auditor-General prior to the election of December 7, 2016. Dr Felix Kwame Aveh was the Auditor-General that former President Mahama intended to appoint if he had won the election of December 7, 2016. But he lost the election. Indeed, in notifying the Council of State of the reason why former President Mahama was seeking to replace Dr Aveh, the then-Chief of Staff stated that ‘the change is as a result of some unforeseen developments.”
“It is fair to conclude that the unforeseen developments” was no other development but the painful loss of the election on December 7, 2016.
“After losing the election, it became necessary for former President Mahama to change his nomination for Auditor-General, with the sole aim of saddling the then-President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo, with an Auditor-General whose allegiance was to former President Mahama, instead of the nation,” the letter said.
On March 3, 2021, President Akufo-Addo directed the Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo to proceed on retirement after he returned from a 167-day accumulated leave.
The directive, according to a statement signed by Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo, was because Mr Domelevo has exceeded the eligible age to remain in the workforce.
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