Specialised Financial Courts will soon be established by the Ghanaian Government to deal with infractions in the Auditor General’s Annual Report, the illegal mining (galamsey) menace and other environment-related crimes.
President John Dramani Mahama made the announcement at the end of a meeting with the Acting Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Attorney General and Minister for Justice Dr Dominic Ayine and the Auditor General Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu.
According to the report distributed by the APO Group on behalf of The Presidency, Republic of Ghana, the meeting recommended that the specialised courts would hold circuit adjudications across the country.
In addition, the Auditor General will in line with Article 187(7)(b) of the Constitution continue to “disallow” illegal expenditures and “surcharge” the persons responsible for them.
The report added that the Supreme Court Judge Justice Gabriel Pwamang, Judicial Secretary Musah Ahmed, Chief of Staff Julius Debrah, Legal Counsel to the President Marietta Brew, Presidential Advisor Joyce Bawah Mogtari, and the Minister of State for Government Communications and Presidential Spokesperson Felix Kwakye Ofosu were among top officials at the meeting.
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