Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) announced today that it will not consider two special audit reports covering Ghana’s Embassy in Washington, DC and the 13th All African Games. The decision follows a formal letter from the Auditor‑General to Parliament requesting the withdrawal of both reports.
The PAC’s move comes as the committee begins a broader review of financial irregularities recorded in the 2025 audit reports. The special audit on the embassy, which covered the period from 2017 to 2025, and the report on the Games were both dropped from the current agenda after a debriefing with the Auditor‑General.
Ms Osei Asare, speaking on the matter, said the committee would not examine the two reports until they are brought back. “We will not be looking at these two reports until they are brought back to us again,” she said.
While the reports are out of the current proceedings, the PAC will still address the findings once they are re‑submitted. The committee’s focus has shifted to the Auditor‑General’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies audit report for 2025, which identified financial irregularities amounting to GH¢5.2 billion, with GH¢4.8 billion linked to tax infractions.
“The most alarming thing is the tax infraction of four point eight billion,” the PAC said, noting its intent to probe the nature of the breaches and the steps taken by relevant tax authorities.
In a bid to tighten oversight, the PAC announced a new approach that will assess whether public institutions have acted on previous audit recommendations, rather than merely recording infractions. The committee will require institutions to demonstrate corrective actions and how those measures have prevented recurrence.
For now, the special audit reports on the embassy and the Games remain outside the PAC’s current agenda. The committee will revisit them when they are formally returned.
