Co-Chair of Citizens Movement Against Corruption, Edem Senanu has stated that he hopes to see the Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo resume work on March 3, 2021, after serving his accumulated leave.

Mr Senanu was reacting to the Audit Service Board’s letter, which indicated that Mr Domelevo should be on retirement based on his date of birth.

The letter comes a day before Mr Domelevo is to resume work, having stayed home for 167 days.

"I would say that Mr Domelevo should walk in confidently and comfortably into his office tomorrow and proceed to work," Mr Senanu said.

Speaking on Newsnight, Tuesday, Mr Senanu insisted that aside the appointment authority, nobody has the power to ask Mr Domelevo not to come to work.

“Until such times that the internal processes have been followed, investigations draw a conclusion that there is an outstanding issue... so we expect to see Mr Domelevo at work tomorrow unless he otherwise decides.”

Daniel Yao Domelevo is expected to resume work on Wednesday, after a directive from the Presidency in July 2020 asking him to take his accumulated leave.

Meanwhile, it was purported that the 167 days “forced leave” he has been on since June 1, 2020, follows Mr Yao Domelevo’s decision to prosecute Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo for superintending over the payment of some $1 million to Kroll Associates by the Ministry of Finance.

However, in a recent development, the Audit Service Board in a 3-page letter addressed to the Auditor-General a day before the resumption of his duties, stated that Mr Domelevo was deemed to have retired last year based on his date of birth.

According to the board, the retirement date for Yao Domelevo was supposed to have been on June 1, 2020. This, according to the Board is because Mr Domelevo was born in 1960 and not 1961.  

That notwithstanding, Edem Sananu told JoyNews’s Emefa Apawu in an interview that, the countless statement between the Chairmen of the audit service, Prof Edward Dua Agyeman and Mr Domelevo does not augur well for governance.

He is of the view that the banter between the two "may be more personal than a public posture in the manner in which things has transpired".

According to Mr Senanu the duties of an Auditor-General attracts all sorts of attacks, hence it is not surprising to see people come at him.

"It is not really surprising because this ding-dong between the Chairman of the Audit Service Board who himself was the previous Auditor-General has been a trend we have observed over time.

“I mean these are the kind of things that will be thrown at you when you want to do good work which steps on people’s toes and that should not be too surprising for anyone,” he stated.

He however advised the Auditor-General to turn a deaf ear to the statement by the Board of the Audit Service and "walk in confidently and comfortably into his office tomorrow and proceed with his work tomorrow".