A member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, has said the auditor general can retrieve more than five billion cedis from State misappropriated funds.
“At one point, when we estimated it, there is possible another 4 to 5 billion cedis that we should be able to put together for the State”.
The group indicated that there are more than 5 billion Ghana cedis that could be retrieved for the state if the auditor general implements a Supreme Court directive to retrieve misappropriated funds.
The supreme court reached a decision after the pressure group instituted an action against the auditor general seeking an order of the court to compel him to not only report on financial misappropriations by public officials but to take steps to retrieve all state finances that may have gone into wrong hands.
The new directive is intended to serve as deterrent to officials who intend to loot the state through their action and inaction.
Casely-Hayford said he is happy the cause for which they have been fighting have gotten attention.
“Happy is an understatement, we are elated, we have been fighting this for at least two years and we are happy we have gotten the reliefs we are seeking,” he added.
