The One Ghana Movement has expressed worry over some actions or what it terms as a “witch-hunt” to have Daniel Yao Domelevo vacate the office of Auditor General.

The Group's concern comes after a three-page letter addressed to Mr Domelevo by the Board of Audit Service indicating that the Auditor General has reached his retirement age per the standings of Ghana’s laws.

According to the Board, Mr Domelevo is deemed to have retired in June 2020 and a letter will be copied to the President for the necessary actions to be taken.

The One Ghana Movement in a press release dated March 3, said: "the latest twist to the hunt is as ridiculous as it is a most shameless act against the Auditor General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo who was extra-judicially forced to take 167 days leave from work, at a critical point in time in the case against then Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo over the Kroll scandal."

This “shameless act” by the Audit Service Board, according to the Group cannot be elevated to any judicial orders, hence cannot prevent Mr Domelevo from fully exercising his constitutional mandate “even if for only the next three months.”

Only a court ruling or the President acting through due process of law in that direction would prevent the Auditor General from exercising his mandate, the Group added.

The Board of Audit Service reported that changes in the date of birth and nationality of Mr Domelevo made it more doubtful and clearly established that he made false statements contrary to law.

The Board alleged that records at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) provided by the Auditor-General indicated that his date of birth was 1960 when he joined the scheme on October 1, 1978.

Again the record also showed that the hometown of Mr. Domelevo is Agbetofe in Togo; making him non-Ghanaian but on October 25, 1993, some changes were made.

The hometown of the Auditor-General was now Ada in the Greater Accra Region while the date of birth changed to June 1, 1961.

Mr. Domelevo in explaining the purported anomalies said his grandfather was a native of Ada in the Greater Accra Region but migrated to Togo and stayed at Agbetofe.

On the issue of his date of birth, Mr Domelevo said he noticed that 1960 was a mistake “when I checked my information in the baptismal register of the Catholic Church in Adeemmra.”

Speaking on the issue of citizenship as raised by the Board, the Group noted that even some former statesmen including the late Rawlings had his citizenship questioned, therefore, urges Mr Domelevo to be "unshaken by the laughable dirt digging to smear his enviable reputation."

The One Ghana Movement, as a result of the outstanding works of Mr Domelevo as captured in a World Bank report on corruption that acknowledged him as improving the Audit Service’s image, is calling for the extension of his stay at the office of the Auditor-General.

"Consequently, except by any process of law, Mr. Domelevo must be left to serve his full term and is more than worthy of his lawful entitlements upon retirement.

"We recommend an extension of his stay within the permissible limits of law, if any, as he is most worthy having worked to improve the image and standing of the institution and is on record as the only Auditor-General to have fought and won to recover millions of cedis for the State," the Group stated.