In a statement on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, the pressure group said the recent high-level meeting between President John Dramani Mahama, the Chief Justice, the Attorney-General and the Auditor-General on strengthening enforcement of audit findings risks becoming “yet another talk shop long on publicity and short on results.”
OccupyGhana stressed that there is no need for additional meetings or committees to tackle corruption in public finance, insisting that the law is already clear and must simply be enforced.
“When enforced, it worked,” the group stated, citing the period between June 2017 and November 2018 when then Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo issued 112 surcharge certificates and recovered over GHS 67 million for the state.
The group accused the current Auditor-General of failing to perform his constitutional duty to disallow unlawful expenditures and surcharge those responsible, describing the inactivity as a breach of the Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling in the OccupyGhana v Attorney-General case.
“The Auditor-General’s duty is to disallow, surcharge and recover, not to meet and talk. The Attorney-General’s duty is to prosecute, not to promise,” the statement read.
OccupyGhana is therefore demanding two immediate actions: the resumption of surcharge and disallowance by the Auditor-General, and prosecutions by the Attorney-General as ordered by the Supreme Court.
“The law does not need to be ‘strengthened’; it simply needs to be obeyed. Until these are done, the public meetings, press releases and promises are nothing but a charade. Ghanaians are tired of photo opportunities dressed up as reform,” it added.
The group also criticised the re-designation of special courts to handle surcharge and disallowance cases, pointing out that such courts were already created years ago with no visible results.
“Ghana deserves institutions that act, not officials who only announce intentions. The Constitution demands enforcement, not excuses,” OccupyGhana declared.
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