{"id":3309,"date":"2024-08-23T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2024-08-23T00:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:22:14","slug":"pac-chairman-laments-that-none-of-the-recommended-individuals-have-faced-prosecution-despite-referrals-to-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;PAC chairman laments that none of the recommended individuals have faced prosecution despite referrals to AG.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/26809187.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3310\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parliament<\/a>, Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Klutse Avedzi<\/a>, has disclosed that the Office of the Attorney General (AG) has not prosecuted even one of the individuals or entities it recommends for prosecution.<br><br>Speaking to the media on August 21, 2024, Dr. Avedzi said that the Attorney General has not prosecuted any individual or entity it cited for prosecution offences they committed in the Auditor-General&#8217;s report because the Clerk of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parliament<\/a>\u00a0has not been communicating the committee\u2019s decision to the Attorney General\u2019s office.<br><br>He added that referrals for prosecutions were sent to the office this year, 2024, after he followed up on the matter to ensure that the right thing was done.<br><br>\u201cYou would see in the report that we have that most of the time we attach an annex to our report listing all the agencies that are to be prosecuted by the Attorney General. The challenge we had as a committee was that while we do all these things, the parliament was not communicating this decision to the Attorney General for them to take action.<br><br>\u201cUntil one day when the Attorney General appeared before the committee, I asked, we have made a number of referrals for prosecution. Tell us what action you are doing or you have taken on them. Then he said, nothing has been communicated to his office. So, I have to start doing a follow-up for the Clerk of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parliament<\/a>\u00a0to communicate this decision,\u201d he said.<br><br>He added, \u201cI\u2019ve gone through this for more than almost a year and a half or even more until recently, that when I raised the issue again on the floor of parliament, it came to light that finally, finally the issues have been communicated to the Attorney General to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of\u00a0Parliament, Dr.\u00a0James Klutse Avedzi, has disclosed that the Office of the Attorney General (AG) has not prosecuted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}