Ghana's Audit Service has recovered more than GHS18 billion in public funds between 2022 and 2026 through its audit work, Auditor-General Dr Pamela Graham has said, according to The Ghana Report.
She said the Service also saved the country about GHS11.7 billion in 2025 alone by detecting and preventing wrongful payments.
"From 2022 to date, we have actually recovered over 18 billion Ghana cedis from the work of the Auditor-General. We have saved the country about 11.7 billion from wrongful payments only in just in 2025," she said.
Dr Graham was speaking at the African Organisation of Public Accounts Committees Conference, where she urged public institutions to act on audit recommendations.
She said financial audits "should not be viewed just as historic detective instruments, but be seen as providing strategic intelligence that helps future control implementations and policy formulations".
She did not give a year-by-year breakdown of the recoveries, name the institutions involved, or say how much of the GHS11.7 billion saved in 2025 is included in the GHS18 billion recovered.