Auditor-General finds financial and administrative irregularities in UG's books

It therefore, “recommended that the Director of Finance should ensure the development of ageing reports on students’ receivables and investigate the total amount of GH¢3,407,815.63 assigned to the unknown students.”

We recommended that the Director of Finance should liaise with all Provosts, Deans and Directors to conduct a review of all bank accounts signatories and ensure that all separated staff are excluded from mandatory/optional signatory list.”

The A-G thus recommended that, ”the Registrar should ensure that the Director of PDMS is provided with financial resources to register all the assigned lands of the University.“

It has emerged from the Auditor-General’s report that the management of these facilities leaves much to be desired.

To enhance mobilization from non-core income generating sources, we recommended that the Registrar and the Director of Finance should develop a comprehensive framework or policy on the hiring and use of the University’s facilities for the consideration of the Council,” a portion of  the report read.

With regard to information management, the Auditor-General found out that data recovery plans do not exist.

We recommended that the Chief Information Technology Officer should develop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans to ensure that all critical information systems can be recovered within a required timeframe,” the Auditor-General reported.