Prez. Nana Addo orders Daniel Domelevo to retire
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Despite the fact that the troubled Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo, claims he is not yet 60 years old, President Nana Akufo-Addo has ordered him to retire.
On Wednesday, March 3, Executive Secretary to the President Nana Bediatuo Asante wrote to Daniel Yao Domelevo the following letter:
"The attention of the President of the Republic has been drawn to records and documents made available to the Office by the Audit Service, that indicate that your date of birth is 1 June 1960 and that in accordance with article 199(1) of the Constitution, your date of retirement as Auditor General was 1 June 2020.
"Based on this information, the President is of the view that you have formally left office. Mr Johnson Akuamoa-Asiedu will continue to act as Auditor-General until the President appoints a substantive Auditor General.
"The president thanks you for your service to the nation and wishes you the very best in your future endeavours.”
Daniel Domelevo has recently been the target of a lot of media attention after a series of emails between him and the Audit Service Board surfaced.
The Board stated that documents issued by the Auditor-General from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) showed that his date of birth was 1960 when he entered the scheme on October 1, 1978.
Even though Mr. Domelevo had updated his records on October 25, 1993, the Board maintained that Mr. Domelevo's hometown is Agbetofe in Togo, making him non-Ghanaian.
The Board stated in a three-page letter addressed to Mr. Domelevo on Tuesday, March 2, just a day before he was to resume work after a forced 167-day leave that his date of birth had changed to June 1, 1961, and that his hometown had changed to Ada in the Greater Accra Region.
Daniel Yao Domelevo dutifully told the board that both charges were unfounded and provided justifications.
“observation of your responses and explanations contained in your above reference letter make your date of birth and Ghanaian nationality even more doubtful and clearly establishes that you have made false statements contrary to law”.
The Board consequently insisted that Mr. Domelevo was due for compulsory retirement on June 1, 2020, and was in fact not Ghanaian but Togolese.
“Records made available to the Board indicate that your date of retirement was 1 June 2020 and as far as the Audit Service is concerned you are deemed to have retired,” it noted.
Meanwhile, Domelevo returned to work on Wednesday, March 3.
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