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US Auditor and professor, Frank Dilorezen, has praised the General Auditing Commission of Liberia for its high level of professional work being performed at the GAC.

Auditor Dilorezen who is responsible for auditing the State of Rhode Island Medicare Program commended the GAC and the Auditor General for what he described as “doing a good work under difficult circumstances.”

The Johnson & Wales University Auditing professor informed Mr. Nyeswa that from what he read from the GAC’s website and other information from the GAO and the media, he is convinced that GAC is doing a great job in the fight against fiscal improprieties.

The General Auditing Commission (GAC) says more than sixty supreme auditors will leave for the 15 counties  early next  week on field verification for the second phase of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) audits.

GAC release indicates that the supreme auditors will be in the various counties for close to two weeks to verify and corroborate projects, financial transactions, documentations, payrolls and other relevant information from the outposts of the five ministries that are under the HIPC spotlight; namely, Health, Education, Lands Mines and Energy, Public Works and the Finance.

GAC release says the last phase of the HIPC which covers the fiscal year ended 2007/2008 started last year with those listed ministries, except the Finance Ministry and  had been  progressing slowly  due to the lack of maximum cooperation in the provision of documents and logistical support from the auditees and the Government of Liberia.

·         Political Audit 

·         Fire Truck Audit 

·         Discover and Repair Audit 

·         Strategic Audit 

Before these new concepts of audits began to permeate the public space, GAC had neither known nor heard of these types of audits. Consequently, the General Auditing (GAC) been holding discussions with Liberians and Auditor Generals in Africa and in the Western world if they have had any information and knowledge on these perceptive paradigms about audit. Having listened to the ulterior objectives underpinning the coining of these phrases, GAC is making the following riposte, beginning with “Political Audit.”

The General Auditing Commission (GAC) says it challenges the Friday, January 15, 2010 edition of The Analyst Newspaper to produce copy of a letter which it claimed the European Union (EU) wrote Auditor General Morlu this week allegedly expressing concern that the Commission was compromising its integrity and trust by playing up publicity controversies at the expense of the fight against corruption. The story is categorically untrue and it was intended to distract the Liberian people from the main issue of a forceful and unbending fight against corruption.  

GAC says it is regrettable that people will do disservice to the EU and the international partners that are tremendously assisting the GAC and the Government of Liberia in supporting the fight against corruption by spreading falsehood against those valuable Liberia partners in progress.