The Internal Auditors Association Ghana (IAAG), has called for an amendment of the Internal Audit Agency Act, 2003 (Act 658) to enable auditors within government agencies perform their duties decently.
Their calls come on the back of the Finance Minister’s remarks in parliament during the 2018 Mid-year Budget Review in July, where he called for the restructuring of the Internal Audit function to strengthen its role in the fiscal consolidation efforts of the government.
Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of a sensitization workshop on ‘Restructuring Public Sector Internal Auditing’, the Techincal Director of the Internal Auditors Association Ghana, Benjamin Adjetey, reiterated the importance of an independent internal auditing process.
“What the Internal Audit Agency does is that we play an oversight role over the work that they do. We ensure the quality of their work. We give them capacity when the need arises, etc. Now, that has not been effective because as staff of their various institutions, the key challenge is the independence of the internal audit unit and the objectivity of the internal audit staff. That is the big challenge that we are facing. And so if the act is amended, and…
