The 2022 Auditor General report, contains details which indicate that two account officers working at the Greater Accra Regional Department of Urban Roads have been implicated in a fraudulent scheme, allegedly misappropriating an amount of GHS1.9 million between January 2020 and March 2022.
The individuals involved in the embezzlement case include a former Greater Accra Regional Accountants Officer and another individual who held a position as an account staff within the department.
The Regional Accountant is under suspicion for allegedly embezzling around 1.6 million cedis through fraudulent withdrawals on their own.
Furthermore, both officers were implicated in separate incidents where they collected a combined revenue of over three hundred thousand cedis, but they failed to provide proper records of the amounts collected.
The Auditor General discovered these revelations by conducting a thorough examination of the public accounts of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.
Based on these findings, the Auditor General has strongly advised the Acting Regional Director of the Department to promptly recover the misappropriated funds from the two staff members involved.