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Mismanagement of Common Fund led to GHS124.8 million irregular spending – Report

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The Auditor-General’s department has expressed its frustrations at continued mismanagement by District Assembly Common Fund despite past warnings for the consistent malfeasance.

The 2019 Auditor General’s report on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies revealed that local assemblies mismanaged the District Assembly Common Fund to the tune of approximately GHS124.8 million.

The irregularities for 2019 showed an increase of GHS4.3 million from 2018 where GHS120.5 million was mismanaged.

The Auditor-General complained that this was a manifestation of the assemblies ignoring previous audit recommendations.

The report said the findings “once again showed a lack of commitment on the part of the management of Assemblies in the implementation and enforcement of my audit recommendations towards mitigating infringements of the laws.”


The Auditor-General said “non-imposition of sanctions to minimise the violations” contributed to the continued malfeasance.

The report stressed that “effective supervision, monitoring and enforcement of existing statutory and regulatory frameworks, together with the imposition of sanctions should be made paramount to curb the infractions.”

He further appealed to the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and management of the Assemblies to impose sanctions where necessary to forestall recurrence of the infractions.

The Administrator of District Assemblies Common Fund distributed GHS511 million to the 260 Assemblies.

Cash irregularities in the sum of GHS33.2 million occurred at 170 Assemblies, according to the report.

These included commitment of expenditure without the use of the Government Integrated Financial and Management Information System (GIFMIS), deduction at source for Fumigation and SIP Services not rendered, funds not accounted for, payments not properly supported with relevant documentation to authenticate the transactions, unretired funds etc.

Some of the irregularities noted included completed projects not in use, projects which were either abandoned or their execution significantly delayed and SIP Services not rendered.

“I observed that the Assemblies awarded fresh projects when earlier ones had not been completed leading to the suspension of work as a result of non-payment of works certificates.”

“I also observed that the management of the Assemblies either did not ensure that the Contractors operated with performance bonds covering the period of the contracts or enforced them where they existed,” the report noted as examples.

Procurement malfesance

Procurement and stores regularities recorded by the Assemblies amounted to GHS4.1 million.

Even though some of these irregularities did not result in outright losses, the report said they still “did not ensure that the Assemblies obtained value for the resources expended.”


The irregularities reduced from GHS10.7 million in 2018 to GHS4.1 million in 2019 representing 61.46 per cent drop.

The Auditor-General, however, recommended “strict compliance with the procurement laws and store regulations.”

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