Alima Mahama Refund: Jinapor challenges Ablakwa’s authority, says only Auditor-General can surcharge

The Minority caucus has challenged the authority of Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa to demand a refund from former Ghanaian Ambassador to the United States, Hajia Alima Mahama, over findings contained in a special audit of Ghana’s embassy in Washington, D.“Even where the Auditor-General has exercised his power of surcharge, a person surcharged has sixty (60) days within which to pay the money or exercise his right of appeal to the High Court, which is guaranteed by Article 187(9) of the Constitution and section 17 of the Audit Service Act, 2000 (Act 584),” he said.

The Minority’s position follows a special audit by the Auditor-General into the operations of the Ghana Embassy in Washington, D.