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Former Auditor General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo says he has not received all his retirement benefits after he was unconstitutionally kicked out of office in 2020.
Mr. Domelevo was forced by the presidency to go on a 169 working-day leave in 2020. This was accumulated leave days untaken by Mr. Domelovo according to the presidency.
But the Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 31 declared that the president’s action was unconstitutional.
Reacting to the development, Mr. Domelevo said he is keenly monitoring the payment of his retirement package.
“I have not received all my benefits yet. What I saw last week Friday was a letter from the Ministry of Finance saying they were paying me a differential gratuity and the money had been paid into my account. And I asked, how do you pay me the differential when I have not seen the original amount?” Mr. Domelevo told Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.
Speaking on the same issue, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo said the ruling was unnecessarily delayed which sets a very bad precedent for bad things to fester.
“It is a great precedent they are setting, but in trying to set a good precedent, they don’t have to allow bad governance to fester before they set a good precedent. What the president did was illegal but now Domelevo cannot go back to act as Auditor General and so is it deliberate that you allow bad governance to fester for all this while and wait till the time you give a ruling and Domelevo cannot go back to act as Auditor General.”
Professor Gyampo added that: “Some of these things should be handled expeditiously to ensure that bad things are not allowed to fester in our body politicking, and I was thinking that the Supreme Court would have seen the urgency in expeditiously adjudicating this matter.”
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