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Audit Service commissions new office complex

The Ghana Audit service has commissioned an ultra-modern office complex at Effiduase at the New Juaben North Municipality.

Date Created : 6/19/2024 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Elizabeth Ansaah/Ghanadistricts.com

The building contract was awarded in 2022 with funding from KFW, a German Development Bank. The Ghana audit service is poised for providing permanent structures for the regions and districts to address the service office space challenges.

The new eastern regional office complex includes a reception area, executive offices, general offices, workshop rooms, archives, a washroom, storage a server room, a kitchen, a guard room and ancillaries.

The Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong on behalf of the president, at the commissioning ceremony said, the infrastructural development project will strengthen the regional and district structures of the audit service and enhance the execution of its constitutional mandate.

The audit service is an independent government agency that oversees the scrutiny of the accounts of the government, regions and activities of the government ministries, departments and agencies.

The regional minister, stressed that, the president had since 2017 ensured that the office of the Auditor-General had been adequately resourced for a consistent and efficient delivery of its mandate.

This had enabled the service to commit funds from the government of Ghana’s budget to complete projects that were started by the audit service as far back as 2012, and were abandoned at various stages across the country.

Notable amongst these projects were the four-storey regional office in Kumasi, the three- storey regional office at Tamale, as well as the district offices in Agona Swerdru and Winneba, both in the central region, Tumu in the Upper East Region and Kete Krachi in the Oti Region.

Mr. Daniel Krull, German Ambassador to Ghana, in a short speech stated that, the infrastructural development was part of the bilateral cooperation between Ghana and Germany, and aims to contribute to fostering transparency and the accounts of public institutions in Ghana at all levels to promote good governance, and accountability.

He explained that, Ghana’s continuous cooperation with the German government has made it possible for them to support the “Government goes solar” program earmarked by the Koforidua Technical University (KTU) with funds to put up solar power systems at the campus.

Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, auditor- general of the Ghana audit service expressed his profound gratitude to the German government and also the government of Ghana for embarking on the project which would help curb the menace of corruption in the country.

The tape- cutting ceremony was performed by Mr. Krull, together with Daasebre Nana Kwaku Boateng III, paramount chief of the New Juaben Traditional area and the eastern regional minister.