By Isaac Ato MENSAH<\/p>\n
Accra- 13 August, 2018.<\/p>\n
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‘KPMG gave a bank in South Africa a clean report only for the bank to collapse after four months.<\/p>\n
Where is IRS and GRA. We don’t even seem to talk about them.<\/p>\n
I doubt if EOCO [Economic and Organised Crimes Office] has the capacity to investigate this matter.’<\/p>\n
– EdgaWiredu, speaking on Unique FM 95.7MHz, Accra, via telephone at 9:50am, on Monday 13 August, 2018.<\/p>\n
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‘What about Ernst and Young? When Enron and Worldcom collapsed, they [Ernst and Young] were fined and then they made an appeal.<\/p>\n
[On external auditors’ reports prepared for banks which they submit to Bank of Ghana.]<\/p>\n
You said it conforms to IFRS [International Financial Reporting Standards] rules, it is true and fair, true and fair, and then you have this.<\/p>\n
You gave an award to a bank and then it collapsed. Taking a banking award in 2016 and then in 2017 it collapses- what kind of award?<\/p>\n
And then you give some people banker of the year, best CEO…’<\/p>\n
– Dr Richmond Atuahene, banking consultant, speaking on Unique FM 95.7MHz, Accra in the studio at 9:55am on Monday 13 August, 2018.<\/p>\n
The host was Cecil Nii Obodai Wentum.<\/p>\n
Writers and Shakespeares Ghana Limited, PR and integrated communications firm established to serve as a moral and intellectual guide to the practice of integrated communications is monitoring the debate.<\/p>\n
We are compiling questions for all those involved in the Ghana banking scandal.<\/p>\n
In our article titled Searchlight on the Banking Scandal- Part 1, we asked the analysers of the Ghana Banking Awards to own up and tell us why it has taken them so long to do so.<\/p>\n
This followed the statement by KPMG that it had not been involved as analysers of the Ghana Banking Awards since 2012.<\/p>\n
We stated in the said article that the press statement by KPMG left in its trail a smoking gun.<\/p>\n
Now Dr Richmond Atuahene seems to suggest the smoking gun belongs to Ernst and Young.<\/p>\n
Who is the realMcCoy?<\/p>\n
And how long will it take for them to own up to ignorance and dishonesty?<\/p>\n
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